From Bulgaria to Haiti, photographer Mathieu Richer Mamousse has joined the congregation to capture prayers, bell-ringing and Vodou Continue reading…
Biden is treating migrants little better than Trump did. That’s shameful | Xochitl Oseguera
We thought the days when our country treated asylum-seekers with cruelty and disdain might be ending. This month we learned we were wrongWe thought the days when our country treated asylum-seekers with cruelty and disdain might be ending. This month we…
Haiti deportations justified because of Covid, Biden homeland secretary says
Alejandro Mayorkas vows investigation of horseback roundups‘They treated us like animals’: deported Haitians despairThe US homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of Hait…
US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ decision to deport migrants
Daniel Foote excoriates Washington in letter addressed to Antony Blinken for deporting hundreds from a border campThe US envoy to Haiti dramatically resigned on Thursday in a letter that excoriated Washington for deporting hundreds of migrants to the v…
Haitian migrants and refugees cross the Rio Grande – in pictures
In the past few weeks more than 12,000 Haitians have arrived in Del Rio, Texas, gathering in a huge makeshift camp. Many have to cross the Rio Grande from Del Rio to Ciudad Acuña to seek food and supplies in Mexico to bring back to family members waiti…
The US Border Patrol filmed whipping migrants gathering water
On the 243rd day of Biden’s presidency and the 244th day of a Democratically controlled Congress, US Border Patrol agents were filmed whipping Haitian migrants gathering water. Days earlier, the Biden administration vowed to increase deportation effort…
Haitian migrants intend to remain at Texas border despite plan to expel them
Thousands seeking to escape poverty and hunger in their own country remain encamped under and near a bridge in Del RioHaitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and hopelessness in their home country said they would not be deterred by US plans …
US to fly Haitian migrants back after thousands gather at Texas border
Plan will likely involve five to eight flights a day, with San Antonio potentially among departure citiesHow thousands of Haitians ended up at the Texas borderThe Biden administration on Saturday was working on plans to send many of the thousands of Ha…
How thousands of Haitian migrants ended up at the Texas border
Gang violence, bloody protests, food and fuel shortages plus natural disasters have spurred many to leave the west’s poorest nationEvery night Guy would fall asleep to the sound of gunfire: warring gangs in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, were fig…
Haiti’s earthquake has compounded years of corruption and political crisis | Jonathan M Katz
The 2010 earthquake response was riddled with failure. Haitians cannot afford another catastropheThe latest statistics from Haiti’s August 14 earthquake are stark: at least 2,207 people have been confirmed dead and more than 12,000 injured. More than 1…