Biden administration faces ‘critical moment’ on migration
Al Jazeera
Under fire for Haitian migrant expulsions, advocates say the US should expect more arrivals as conditions in Haiti worsen.
Washington, DC – Expulsion to Haiti, retreat to Mexico or detention in the United States – these have been the options facing more than 14,000 mostly Haitian migrants who camped under a bridge in the US state of Texas last week, hoping to gain asylum.
But while thousands have been deported from the US, and those who remain face a similar fate, rights groups say Haitian asylum seekers, many of them families with children, will keep coming in search of protection.
“This is not a deterrence measure or even a Band-Aid solution,” said Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, an organisation that assists Haitian migrants, of the US expulsion policy.
