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Haitians are facing long wait times and extortion as they try to obtain passports so they can apply for the Biden administration humanitarian parole program. Their loved ones here in South Florida are victims, too.
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South Florida's Haitian-American Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick tells ¸Û°ÄÌìϲÊhow President Biden’s humanitarian parole program impacts Haitians, migrants and asylum seekers — while families discuss the stress of going through it.
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Nonstop migrant landings in the Florida Keys has overwhelmed federal law enforcement agencies. But the county must deal with the boats left behind in an already fragile environment.
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Experts say a new humanitarian parole program for Venezuelans marks a new incentive-cum-enforcement trend for immigration policy — if it actually works.
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As the immigration detention system flourished since the 1980s, it led to the creation of the private prison industry. The last episode of WLRN's podcast Detention By Design looks at the inextricable links between the two, and how, in turn, the picture has gone full circle in 2022, leaving us in a place very similar to the early days of Haitian and Cuban arrivals in Florida.
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The human rights group's strongly worded assessment comes a year after images of mounted border patrol agents driving away Haitians sparked global anger.
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Homeland Security Investigations and other agencies are battling a 'marked uptick' in gun smuggling to Haiti, with an increase in both the quantity and the caliber of weapons.
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In "Pushed Into the Shadows," Refugees International points out a decades-old Latin American agreement should guide Mexico in its handling of Haitian migrants.
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A U.S. Coast Guard video shows Key West crews returning nearly 90 migrants, including children, to Haiti on Sunday. Since October, the military branch has detained 3,060 Haitian migrants, a nearly 51% increase compared to the last fiscal year.
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Almost 500 Haitians have come ashore in the Florida Keys in two weeks — and they say they're fleeing violent gangs that control much of Haiti now.
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The boat teeming with people listed sharply to its side near Key Largo on Sunday, not far from where another boat was stopped in January. Many of the migrants were in need of medical attention.
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Meet Fort Lauderdale's new Police Chief Larry Scirroto. Also, a local Haitian-American activist gives an update on the Haitian refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Plus, this month's Sundial Book Club title author Patricia Engel discusses her new novel "Infinite Country."