Haitians Mass at US-Mexico Border Despite Deportation Policy
The Associated Press reports that several thousand Haitians have traveled to Tijuana, Mexico in recent months, overflowing migrant shelters, many after traveling 7,000 miles by foot, taxi and bus from Brazil through eight nations to the border of the United States. here were so many that in August, Mexican authorities imposed a system of appointments in order to keep the Haitians away from the flow of other visitors at one of the world’s busiest border crossings. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on September 21 began putting Haitians in detention facilities before attempting to send them back to the homeland they fled, a departure from previous practice of freeing them on humanitarian parole. The U.S. softened its posture after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake but now treats them like people from other countries.
KJ