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The Haitian refugee crisis, which began in 1991, saw the US Coast Guard collect Haitian refugees and take them to a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay. [1] They were fleeing by boat after Jean-Bertrand Aristide , the democratically elected president of Haiti , was overthrown and the military government was persecuting his followers. [ 2 ]
The program was implemented in 2022 to 2023 (Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua [2]) in response to high numbers of migrants and asylum seekers from these countries crossing into the US at the southwest border with Mexico. [3] Each of the four countries is facing political, social, and/or economic instability. [4] [5]
As the number of migrants coming to the U.S.'s southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White ...
To counter a potential migration flow, the Biden administration in January 2023 included Haiti in a list of four countries whose nationals would be allowed to come to the United States legally as ...
This Sunday, June 20, marks the 20th anniversary of World Refugee Day -- a day established by the United Nations in 2001 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the ...
Under international law, a refugee is a person who has fled their own country of nationality or habitual residence, and cannot return due to fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
The U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces bolster embassy security, as Caribbean ...
[23] [158] [159] Over the next days US military airlifted out its embassy personnel [160] and the European Union evacuated all diplomatic staff from Haiti. [161] After the 8 March attack on the National Palace , schools and government offices remained closed in the capital amid continuing attacks on police stations, hospitals, and courthouses.