FOX 4 WORD OF THE DAY SERIES
It is a painful irony that the US sent Haitians back to a nation torn by gang warfare and lashed by hunger on the same week that The New York Times ran a series of articles showing how Haitians had to pay crippling indemnities to France to maintain their freedom during the 19th century and beyond. There were 15 expulsion flights to Haiti in the week leading up to May 23. Mexico will not accept returnees from Haiti, and so the US deports them by the planeload. Under Title 42, migrants without kids are nearly always turned back.
The Déjeans reached the United States and, because they had children with them, they were allowed to enter. “Our group all survived, but we did pass many people who died along the way.” “We didn’t eat for five days,” he said in Spanish. The most difficult stage was through the Darien Gap in eastern Panama, a rainforest area used by drug smugglers. But Covid hit, the economy crashed, and he, like many other Haitians in Chile and Brazil, trekked northward. There he met his wife, who was also from Haiti, and they started a family. He was one of tens of thousands of Haitians who took one-way flights to Chile during this time. He left Haiti in 2016 when it became clear to him that the country was not rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake and that gang warfare in the capital, Port-au-Prince, was spinning out of control. Déjean, in his early 30s, is an electrician. Patrick Déjean, originally from Haiti, will soon catch a bus to New Jersey with his wife, 5-year-old son, and 1-year-old daughter. There they will await hearing dates in immigration courts for their asylum applications. Respite Center workers, many of them volunteers, put the migrants in touch with family members who are already in the country, who then send money to buy bus tickets to their final destinations. The former bar dispenses toiletries, clothing, and diapers. The Respite Center in McAllen was once a night club, with dark purple walls, and now welcomes 400 to 500 arrivals every day, nearly all families with children. The refugee crisis at the border is a direct consequence of US policy. If you essentially shut down any US government agency for that long, the Passport Office for instance, the number of people demanding their documents would surge. But for more than two years, Washington has blocked efforts to claim asylum, creating a backlog. Many migrants thought that Title 42 would end and that they would be allowed to apply for asylum.
As a result, many thousands of people remain in refugee camps in Mexico. It was due to expire on May 23, but Summerhays extended it indefinitely. Over the past two years, the United States has used Title 42 to carry out 1.8 million expulsions. (The purported justification is to stop the spread of Covid-19, but the Centers for Disease Control says there is no epidemiological reason to keep Title 42 in effect.) Judge Robert Summerhays, directed the US to keep using a public health measure called Title 42 to immediately deport migrants without letting them plead their cases. On May 20, a Trump-appointed federal judge effectively ordered the Biden administration to continue violating the US Refugee Act of 1980, which guarantees the right to apply for asylum. Republicans and Fox News are distorting the truth about the southern US border, and the rest of the US mainstream media is failing to clear it up.
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