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Higher likelihood of asylum denial for Haitians by the United States

Gibbens Revolus, his wife Lugrid, and their 2-year-old son Diego have had to experience firsthand the contempt, racism, and struggles of many Haitian immigrants as they undertake the difficult journey to the border between the United States and Mexico from Chile.

Gibbens Revolus, his wife Lugrid, and their 2-year-old son Diego have had to experience firsthand the contempt, racism, and struggles of many Haitian immigrants as they embarked on the difficult journey to the border between the United States and Mexico from Chile, only to end up like around 15,000 other Haitians in unsanitary conditions at the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, awaiting asylum.

Revolus has sought opportunities since his country entered a growing crisis due to the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, political instability due to the death of President Jovenel Moïse in July, as well as a wave of gang violence and uncontrollable kidnappings.

Gibbens embarked on his journey from Haiti to Chile, where he found work in a butcher shop, stocking refrigerators and shelves, barely enough to cover his basic needs. However, attitudes toward Haitians soon changed. «Two coworkers tried to stab me,» says Revolus, who was in Chile on a work visa.

Feeling that growing pressure in Chile, he decided to begin his journey to the US border at the beginning of this year, where, according to him, they lived through a hell that took them 3 months of travel by bus, several days walking and crossing from Colombia to Panama in a crowded boat, only to end up being deported by the border patrol on September 27.

“We were just looking for a better life, but they turned us away” … “After each of the decades of US meddling in Haiti’s affairs, I really believed I would be allowed to ask for asylum at the border,” Gibbens says, speaking on his cell phone from Port-au-Prince.

Now Revolus and his family, like many other Haitian immigrants, remain back in a territory where the rule of law seems to have collapsed.

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Biden's immigration plan goes against the reality at the border

An aggressive effort to quickly clear more than 15,000 Haitian migrants from the makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, has been part of a radical and contradictory response from President Biden and his promise to improve the immigration plan in the United States.

Biden's strategy was to bring agents to the Del Rio, Texas area, backed by a public health immigration rule invoked by Trump to deport many people to their countries of origin. 

 The procedure looks like something out of a horror movie. President Biden's spokeswoman said the scenes of agents on horseback were "horrible" and not "acceptable or appropriate." However, the deportations are a clear example of how Biden, who declared on February 2 that his goal was to "undo the moral and national disgrace of the previous administration," is implementing some of the more aggressive anti-immigration measures that Trump took over the past four years.

Having failed in his attempts to build a more "humane" set of immigration laws, Biden has reacted in a way that few of his supporters expected. 

The initiative initially championed by Joe Biden to comprehensively reform immigration laws has been dealt a blow by the Senate's decision on Sunday. To some extent, the conflict Biden faces stems from his efforts to use the power of his office to enact lasting immigration change, efforts that were blocked by federal judges skeptical of executive power and hampered by a bureaucracy deliberately obstructed by former President Trump. 

While trying to uphold the United States' humanitarian obligations to migrants fleeing lack of job opportunities, economic hardship, political instability, and violence, Bien continues to struggle to solve a challenge that U.S. presidents have faced for decades. 

This news story was created from The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/39MC4KE

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Around 10,000 migrants gather under a bridge between the United States and Mexico border

Thousands of people have crossed the border, mostly Haitians; all those who have crossed have been forced to sleep under the bridge in deplorable conditions, thus creating a growing humanitarian crisis. 

The bridge connects with Texas and with the Acuña Metropolis of Mexico, which has a temporary camp that has seen an increase in the flow of people arriving there. 

According to government data, the situation has been such that at the beginning of this year (2021), it was reported that the number of migrants detained at the border in the month of July exceeded 200,000 cases for the first time in 21 years. 

The vast majority of those waiting are Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan migrants, forced to endure temperatures of 37°C and must return for supplies, even though the makeshift camp has few services to offer them. 

Since the Biden administration took office, there have been major changes in immigration procedures, including the creation of a task force to reunite migrant children with their families, halting the construction of Trump's border wall, and reviewing immigration programs canceled by his predecessor. 

This news story was created from BBC News: https://bbc.in/3zrcG7R