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The Haitian Support Center has hosted trainings so that residents know their rights and what to do if they encounter U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Dorsainvil said the training ...
Volunteer teacher Hope Kaufman leads Haitian students during an English language class at the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, on September 13, 2024. The small US ...
Springfield, Ohio (Reuters) -Rose Joseph and Banal Oreus followed different paths from Haiti to this struggling Midwestern industrial city that suddenly finds itself at the center of the U.S ...
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 ]
Kathy Heaton — a 71-year-old resident of Springfield, Ohio — was struck and killed by a car driving by a Haitian migrant in December. Jackson Lytle & Lewis Life Celebration Center
Between 2006 and 2009, Haiti was added to the World Bank and IMF's highly indebted poor country initiative . [15] The Haiti Debt Cancellation Resolution [16] had 66 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives as of February 2008. In September 2009, following a program of economic and social reforms, Haiti met the requirements for ...
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, to take control of Haiti's political and financial interests.
Joe Ruck, a co-owner of Champion City Cuts Barber Shop in Springfield, said the south side of the city has become known as "Little Haiti." Ruck grew up in Springfield and said Haitian immigrants ...