This week, the Biden administration once again betrayed the trust of the Haitian community that helped to elect it. The most recent deception came in the form of mass expulsion of Haitian migrants, many of whom have not lived in Haiti for years.
—falsely told they were going to be sent to Florida only to be sent back to Port-au-Prince, where many of them had not lived for years. The heartbreaking stories about pregnant women and young children
grasping for faint glimmers of hope that they will be granted asylum once they reach the United States. The list is painfully long; the current tally of grievances jarring. And for those of us in the Haitian diaspora who voted for the Biden-Harris ticket hoping that they would bring much-needed immigration reform to the United States, it is also a sobering reminder.
Perhaps we were naïve to hope Biden would reimagine immigration reform in ways more humane than his predecessors—To be clear, the proliferation of Haitian migrants at the Mexican border did not just begin under this administration. The number of Haitians entering the U.S. through South America has been steadily increasing over the years.resumed the mass deportations
of Haitians who were granted temporary protective status after the earthquake of 2010. When Trump was elected two months later, he promised to stem the tide of immigration to the US through various measures including bans and walls. Deporting Haitians who have been abroad for so long that their ties to Haiti are tenuous at best was also a common practice of
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