T ucked away in a hillside garden a short walk from the restive heart of Port-au-Prince, the Hotel Oloffson was a strange kind of refuge. Through good years and a lot of bad ones, it stayed open to all comers, welcoming despite its dark undertones and somehow immune to Haiti’s …
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Judges in federal courts have issued two major blows against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged immigration crackdown, ruling on Wednesday that the government cannot block undocumented migrants who enter the United States outside of authorized ports of entry from applying for asylum, and in a separate ruling that it cannot revoke …
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Killer. Robin Hood. Cannibal gang leader. Revolutionary. These are some of the conflicting labels that have been attached to Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, the former police officer-turned-gang chieftain at the center of Haiti’s spiraling violence. Since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse plunged the country into anarchy, mainstream news …
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During the presidential debate on Wednesday, former PresidentDonald Trumpmade the insane claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were killing and eating pets from the community. “They’re eating the dogs — the people that came in — they’re eating the cats,” Trump said, seemingly out of nowhere, referring to a …
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In their long-running quest to sow xenophobia among the American populace, some on the far right have accused migrants of every imaginable crime. Donald Trump declared them rapists and falsely claimed that the violent street gang MS-13 was invading the country on a massive scale. GOP legislators have argued, with …
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J ust before eight in the morning on May 29, Lourdy Denis answered his phone and a woman informed him that his son had been shot in the head. She’d found Denis’ number scribbled on the back of the child’s notebook, and pleaded with him to come quickly. Denis raced …
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A former Haitian justice official, who has been a key suspect in the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti, was arrested Thursday after being on the run for more than two years, the New York times reported. The suspect, Joseph Félix Badio, 60, was captured outside the capital, …
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Four individuals suspected of having a role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were charged in the United States on Thursday. According to the Department of Justice, three of those charged are Haitian-American citizens, the fourth is a Colombian national. Haitian-American citizens James Solages, Joseph Vincent, and …
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Tucker Carlson‘s rhetoric tends to align with that of avowed white supremacists, so much so that it can be hard to distinguish the Fox News host from some of the nation’s most prominent self-professed racists. This has certainly been the case this week as he’s lambasted President Biden, and even …
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Haitians who were displaced by the country’s 2010 earthquake and who now reside in the United States will be given Temporary Protected Status for the next 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Saturday. The decision applies to any Haitian immigrant living in the country as of Friday …
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