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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 ...
Senegal is offering parcels of land – even an entire region if they come en masse – to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti. [7] There is a significant Haitian population in South Florida, specifically the Miami enclave of Little Haiti. New Orleans, Louisiana has historic ties to Haiti that date back to the Haitian Revolution.
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 ]
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.
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.
On March 8, 2024, Judge Tipton found that "Texas did not establish that it has suffered harm due to the CHNV parole programs and therefore did not have standing to bring its claims." The judge's ruling emphasized that the program has actually reduced the number of migrants coming from these four countries. Texas is appealing the decision.
The arrival of Joseph, Oreus and as many as 15,000 other immigrants from Haiti over roughly the last three years has reshaped this city of 58,000, offering some promise of economic revival along ...