The U.S. has expelled some 2,000 migrants to Haiti this week on more than 17 flights, with several more scheduled in upcoming days
President Joe Biden is facing criticism over his response to the crisis as he tries to pass infrastructure and budget bills in Congress.PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- You’re lucky, the U.S. officials said. “You’re going to see your family.”ans had been issued when they were detained after crossing the border into Texas. As each number was called, another bedraggled immigrant stood up.The prize was a one-way trip back to the place they had so desperately wanted to escape.
Chloe, born in Chile, looked around quietly at her new surroundings as Celestin and his wife asked to borrow someone’s phone to call a taxi. It would be more expensive, but they didn’t want their toddler riding on a motorcycle — a common means of transport in city where vehicles must veer around smoldering garbage dumps, heavy traffic and the occasional burning barricade.
Haiti has more than 11 million people; about 60% make less than $2 a day. A cornerstone of its economy is money from Haitians living abroad -- $3.8 billion a year, or 35% of the country’s GDP. “What hurt me the most, what frustrated me the most, was the dead people I saw,” migrants who died along the way, said de León.
Breakfast on that first morning in Haiti consisted of spaghetti and bits of avocado. Normally, Chloe has milk and fruit, but de León said she was waiting on a money transfer to buy some basic food items. She worried about her daughter’s health, and about her future.
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