The majority of the Haitian asylum-seekers now stalled in Mexico have come north after multiple years in Chile or Brazil, where anti-immigrant politicians Sebastián Piñera and Jair Bolsonaro have made life for Haitians excessively difficult in terms of paperwork, jobs, and day-to-day racism. Mexico is a containment belt for people migrating in search of international protection.” “Their response is instead to continue externalizing the U.S. as a destination country have not come up with a comprehensive, humanitarian response to this,” said Yuriria Salvador, coordinator for structural change at the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center in Tapachula. Mexico as a transit and destination country and the U.S. “There is a context of violence, economic crises, aggravated natural disasters in the region, political crises in Central and South America, so there is an influx of people that was predictable.
They made up 88 percent of new refugee applications in Mexico over the last few weeks, according to the head of Mexico’s refugee agency, Comar.
pressure on the Mexican government, there are now at least 30,000 Haitians effectively in detention in Tapachula. border is moving further south, and because of U.S. But there were few images of a different migration policy that has been continuous across administrations since Barack Obama: The U.S. Joe Biden’s expulsion of at least 7,621 Haitian asylum-seekers using Title 42, an ostensible public health policy imposed at the start of the pandemic by Donald Trump and maintained by Biden, drew widespread condemnation and violated international and domestic asylum law, according to advocates. (Junior asked to be identified only by his first name to speak more freely while still in his asylum process.) “We are in the same combat as previous centuries,” he said. “Those images reminded us of images of slavery from past centuries,” he said when I met him this month outside the Olympic Stadium in the Mexican city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, where he and thousands of other Haitian asylum-seekers waited to be registered. Border Patrol charging at Haitian migrants who had gathered in Del Rio, Texas, last month, were a traumatic reminder for Junior, a 26-year-old asylum-seeker, of what his fellow Haitians have been through already and how the United States might treat him in the future.
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