![]() Some said they never talked to an immigration agent. And they headed north.īut instead of the reception they’d expected, they were detained in the small border town of Del Rio, Texas, and without warning deported - to Haiti, a broken country many no longer recognized - in a head-spinning sequence that left them feeling mistreated and betrayed. So they sold their belongings, left their jobs and pulled their kids out of school. They had stable jobs as bank tellers, welders, mine supervisors, gas station attendants.īut they longed for the possibility of a better a life in the United States, under a president who had protected Haitians in the United States from deportation and many believed would relax entry requirements. Since leaving their country, many more than a decade ago, they had built lives in Chile, Brazil, Panama. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The Haitian migrants had done well for themselves.
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