They are called "coyotes" They work for the drug cartels who completely control the boarder. This has been a great business for them. It's estimated that a million illegals have crossed this year. At $10K each, that's a billion dollars for the drug cartels and much less risky that smuggling drugs.
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Haitians at USA/Mexico border
Well they are dirt poor now because they spent it and maybe are indebted even. I think they own only the clothes they are wearing and the plastic bags they are carrying. I am not sure all these paid that much anyway. From reading about them crossing dangerous jungles and rivers etc doesn’t sound as comfortable as Cubans I have heard about paying around that.
With 500,000 to invest you are welcome to the US with a green card in areas deemed high unemployment (other areas 1 million) and thousands of Chinese have been allowed entry with this amount of money.
Of the swelling numbers of Haitians entering none have half a million nor probably even $500.
Since they speak French I would think making their way to Quebec would be their best bet eh?
My point is that if they have a family of four and have paid $12000 a piece they are not dirt poor.
And then there's this: Pregnant Haitians who come to have their baby in the U.S.. Sound familiar?
La Travesía De Las Haitianas Embarazadas Para Dar A Luz En Estados Unidos | Bavarodigital.net
“Es una bendición que mi hijo pueda nacer en EE.UU.”, dice suspirando a Efe Mahilda, una mujer haitiana embarazada que ha tardado más de un mes y medio en
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Deported by U.S., Haitians Are in Shock: ‘I Don’t Know This Country’ (Published 2021)
Haitians who lived abroad for years have been returned to a country in crisis that they barely recognize — often, they say, without a hearing.
Watched a video on DM nobody was whipped. BTW it looks like women with children most likely to get a pass.
Deported by U.S., Haitians Are in Shock: ‘I Don’t Know This Country’ (Published 2021)
Haitians who lived abroad for years have been returned to a country in crisis that they barely recognize — often, they say, without a hearing.www.nytimes.com
Sending a very clear message to any others who may feel they'll be accepted if they show up.
At this point the question everyone should be asking and that none has bothered to is: what is the point of Haitian independence, exactly?
From the article I think that was a Cuban family. I just don’t think many of the Haitians went on the “business class/first class” smuggling route.
At this point that country should be put under a multinational trust, and not just on the military scale like it was with Minustah (which did control security on the ground, but didnt go further than that).
As for their getting independent being the right thing at the time, so what? Martinique and Guadeloupe tried to do so at the same time, yet they failed, but if you got to ask Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today, none would renounce that blue EU passport, specially when they have in front the enormous cost their Haitian former fellow travellers have paid for it, and still continue to pay.
I am not an expert on Haiti history or Haiti now but I would probably agree on the first part of your post. Some multinational governance of the country would save lives and probably save money to in the long term. One still wonders what happened to all those funds after the 2010 earthquake. Disgusting.
I don’t know though if I agree on the second part. The other islands are much smaller. Not sure they compare.
I am aware that the same logic applies to my people, but the reasoning is no less true just for that: the act of leaving one's country due to economic or political reasons is a plebiscitarian vote against the continuing independent existence of said country, specially more when it reaches a point when there are more nationals of said country living abroad than there are doing it inside the country in question.
I would think there's a certain segment of the Haitian aristocracy that would fight that. How successful they would be in the long term is doubtful, but they would put up a fight.
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20,000 Haitians gather in Colombia for possible migration to U.S.
DHS is also tracking groups of 1,500 in Panama and 3,000 in Peru, an internal document said.
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Don't say sorry. I'm no fan of them. How they can see their fellow countrymen in abject misery and do absolutely effing nothing is beyond my comprehension.