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This kind of mass migration has not been seen since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, nearly wiping out all of Port-au-Prince and leaving more than 300,000 dead.
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 ...
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 allowed a combined total of 30,000 people per month from the four countries to enter the US. 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]
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.
Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “s---hole countries” during a meeting in 2018, NBC News reported. Pool did not respond to a request for comment or further evidence.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft and President Jovenel Moïse met in November 2019 about ways to implement a consensual resolution of Haiti's political crisis. Peyi lok ("country lockdown") [59] is how the situation was described in Haitian Creole in November 2019 after two and a half months with schools, courts, businesses, public ...