Since the longstanding disorder at Mexico’s northern border expanded around 2016 to its southern border, responses by U.S. and Mexican officials, as captured in the media, have seemed fraught.
A father and two children from Haiti stop for food and rest in Guadalajara’s FM4 Paso Libre shelter before traveling to Tijuana, where they said they will rejoin relatives of the children’s mother. The shelter does not permit naming of residents to avoid reprisals against family members left behind.
By 2021, snapshots from both borders featured a slice of migrating people—those from the poverty stricken Caribbean island nation of Haiti—as hapless new stars in the confrontations. (Haiti is rated by Worldometers as 173rd of 190 countries in per capita GDP.)
September images that evoked nightmares, especially among African Americans, showed mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents chasing and rein-whipping dark-skinned refugees from Haiti as they attempted to enter Texas near Del Rio. Ensuing large-scale deportations by air prompted a high-level U.S. diplomat to Haiti, Daniel Foote, to resign in anger.
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