“I left Haiti to go find a better future,” said Stephanie, who declined to provide her surname. She said she was taken from under the bridge by U.S. agents to a detention facility before being loaded onto the flight.“If jobs could be created, we would never have exposed ourselves to this misery in other countries,” she said.
In a video message released Sunday evening, Prime Minister Ariel Henry pledged to assist the expelled Haitians and bemoaned the “disturbing” images from the camp. “It’s with great sorrow that we watch on social media, through television and listen on the radio to the tribulations of our brothers and sisters at the border of Mexico and the United States,” he said.
He implored Haitians to build a future where they can “live well in our country without having to suffer these forms of shame.” But at the airport, returned migrant Mondesir Sirilien explained how he had spent about $15,000 to leave Haiti, traveling first to Brazil and then by land to eventually cross the shallow Rio Grande at the U.S. southern border.“I could have invested that money here, I could have built a great business. It’s not like we don’t know how to do things,” he said.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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