Demonstrators in South Florida protest the deportation of Haitian migrants. | facebook.com/DohaDebates/photos/pcb.1089867605154586/1089863008488379
Demonstrators in South Florida protest the deportation of Haitian migrants. | facebook.com/DohaDebates/photos/pcb.1089867605154586/1089863008488379
The situation near Del Rio, Texas, involving migrants from Haiti has sparked outrage in South Florida, with protesters taking to the streets to demand answers from President Joe Biden's administration.
A rally in support of the Haitians at the Texas-Mexico border was held Sept. 22 at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, NBC Miami reported.
“We are standing here for equal treatment,” Marleine Bastien, executive director of the Family Action Network Movement, told the station before the protest. “We are standing here for justice.”
Rally organizers said the White House must end the mass deportations of Haitians and stated they hope the protest keeps the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border involving thousands of Haitian migrants in the mainstream consciousness.
The Caribbean island nation, which was once a French colony, has been reeling from the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck a month later that drew comparisons to the disaster in 2010.
The U.S. deported about 1,000 Haitians who were found under a bridge in the Del Rio area while another 4,000 have been taken to other processing centers along the border, NBC Miami reported.
Some protestors blocked traffic in front of the ICE field office, the station additionally reported.
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