At a church rectory in Boston, Haitian migrants place their hopes on hard work and helping hands
Boston, USAP When Ernseau Admettre decided to leave Haiti and head north with his young family in tow, very little was guaranteed. But the situation in his homeland, beset by poverty and gang violence, had grown so dire that a risky passage to and then across the United States’ southern border offered a kind of […]
Migrants in Mexico: Violence forced them to flee. Now faith sustains these migrants on their journey to the US
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports from Tijuana…
US explores refugee program for non-Mexican asylum seekers in Mexico
Washington DC, US/Mexico City, Mexico Reuters US and Mexican officials are discussing a new US refugee program for some non-Mexican asylum seekers waiting in Mexico, four sources said, part of President Joe Biden’s attempts to create more legal avenues for migration. The program would likely be open to Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan refugees in […]
Welcoming the stranger: Miami faith community strains to help new exiles, migrants
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on how faith communities in Miami are caring for migrants…
US expands deportation relief to some 264,000 Haitians
Washington DC, US Reuters The Biden administration will expand deportation relief and access to work permits for Haitians who are already in the United States, the US Department of Homeland Security said on Monday, a move that comes as Haiti’s government struggles to stabilise the country. Haitian migrants, seeking to reach the US, stand in […]
Mexico asylum applications nearly double in 2021, Haitians top list
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The number of asylum applications in Mexico nearly doubled in 2021, the head of the country’s commission for refugee assistance said on Monday, with most applications being from Haitian and Honduran migrants. When compared to the previous year, the 131,448 applications mark an increase of 86.84 per cent, according to the Mexican […]
Thousands of Haitians gather at encampment in southern Mexico, demanding help
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Several thousand Haitian migrants have camped outside a stadium in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, pleading to be transferred to other states and given authorization to travel freely through Mexico and seek employment. Mexican officials last week began moving hundreds of migrants to other states after they had endured lengthy waits for […]
US border camp cleared of Haitians, thousands more on the move
Del Rio, Texas, USReuters An impromptu border camp that roiled the US Government was cleared of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelled on deportation flights or returned to Mexico. Reuters witnesses said the jumble of makeshift shelters and tents had all but disappeared from […]
US special envoy to Haiti resigns, blasts returning migrants to “collapsed state”
Ciudad Acuna, Mexico/Washington DC, USReuters The US special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest in a letter that blasted the Biden administration for deporting hundreds of migrants back to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a camp on the US-Mexican border in recent days. Daniel Foote, a career diplomat named to his post in July, said […]
WhatsApp instructions, Mexican struggles: How Haitians ended up in Texas camp
Ciudad Acuña, Mexico Reuters Haitians camped out under a Texas bridge followed instructions circulated on WhatsApp to get there, according to a dozen migrants who said the tips delivered to their phones helped them evade checks by Mexican authorities. Over 10,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, were as of Friday sleeping on the ground in […]