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Haitian Migrants Don’t Plague the Caribbean. They Reflect It.

Monday, March 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Haitians seeking refuge in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere and being deported back to Haiti

[Author’s Note: This commentary was originally published on March 31, 2005. Sadly, 20 years later, the more things have changed elsewhere, the more they’ve stayed the same in Haiti. So I’ve updated it — with a few new facts and, alas, the same old misery and hypocrisy.] Haitian migrants aren’t causing a crisis so much… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Caribbean immigration, Caricom, Dominican Republic deportations, Haiti, Haitian migrants, immigration hypocrisy, refugee crisis, The Bahamas, U.S. Haiti relations

African Migrants Turning Mediterranean into Vast Cemetery

Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 6:52 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
migrant dying in the Mediterranean

History is replete with episodes of people migrating in droves from one place to another in search of a better life. And, in far too many cases, their migration challenged them to make it through a known hell to get to an uncertain heaven. Hispanics and Haitians migrating to America blighted the twentieth century in… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Africa, African migrants, Genocide analogies, human rights, Lampedusa, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea, migration, Pope Francis, refugee crisis

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