Mexico feels the strain as Haitian migrants, caught in limbo, mark time
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Asylum claims by Haitians in Mexico are on track to hit a record above 50,000 this year, a top official said, further pressuring the country’s already strained migrant services as many begin to contemplate a future there rather than in the United States. In the year’s first three months, 13,631 applied for […]
UN experts condemn US expulsions of Haitian migrants
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters UN human rights experts on Monday condemned Washington’s expulsions of Haitian migrants and refugees, saying they formed part of a policy of “racialised exclusion” of Black Haitians at US ports of entry. Under its so-called Title 42 policy passed last year by the administration of former President Donald Trump on sanitary grounds, the […]
Mexico sends 70 Haitian migrants back home by plane
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a “voluntary return” flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian migrants from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas. Mexico’s interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that […]
Advocating for Haitians, US faith groups pressure Biden to end Trump-era measure
RNS Rev Myrlande DesRosiers likens what has happened to Haiti in the past few months to Biblical plagues: the mounting death toll of COVID-19, the assassination of the Haitian President and a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake in August that left thousands dead on the island nation and reduced homes to rubble. And this month, a fourth catastrophe: […]