Haiti: A migration crisis?
Date of Publication
1-1-2023 12:00 AM
Security Theme
Human Rights
Keywords
Migration, civil rights, border, Human Rights
Description
In September 2021 Haitian migration at the US-Mexico border garnered significant media attention when US border patrol agents on horseback were captured on camera corralling Haitian asylum seekers. Media headlines declared a “Haitian migration crisis,” with estimates of more than tens of thousands of Haitian migrants waiting at the border. Civil rights groups condemned the treatment against migrants revealed in the grotesque images, while federal authorities declared that they would be suspending the use of horses at the border. At the height of events, deportations of families and individuals back to Haiti continued, and, perhaps, to discourage further migration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reminded migrants in an official statement that the border was not open for those taking the “irregular migration path” to the US.
Haiti: A migration crisis?
In September 2021 Haitian migration at the US-Mexico border garnered significant media attention when US border patrol agents on horseback were captured on camera corralling Haitian asylum seekers. Media headlines declared a “Haitian migration crisis,” with estimates of more than tens of thousands of Haitian migrants waiting at the border. Civil rights groups condemned the treatment against migrants revealed in the grotesque images, while federal authorities declared that they would be suspending the use of horses at the border. At the height of events, deportations of families and individuals back to Haiti continued, and, perhaps, to discourage further migration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reminded migrants in an official statement that the border was not open for those taking the “irregular migration path” to the US.
