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Updated September 20th, 2021 at 07:02 IST

Haitian migrants look for ways to reach US-Mexico border

Hundreds of Haitian and a handful of Cuban and African migrants continue to look for ways to reach the US-Mexico border on Saturday.

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Hundreds of Haitian and a handful of Cuban and African migrants continue to look for ways to reach the US-Mexico border on Saturday. Early Friday morning more than 500 were taken off the buses taking them to the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Migrants like Wiston Demeille decided to continue their journey to the U.S.-Mexico border on foot.

"For us it's very difficult for us," said Demeille, who has been traveling for six and a half months since he left Haiti.

"Not all people are good people. There are bad ones too, and they scammed us in other countries too, they took our money too, we lived through a lot of calamities."

Haitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and a feeling of hopelessness in their home country hope to arrive in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, bordering Texas, where a Christian church is said to be helping them request asylum. Haitians have been crossing the Rio Grande between the Mexican town of Ciudad Acuña and the town of Del Rio in the United States through knee-deep water in a steady stream for the past week. But Juan Sierra Vargas, leader of the Casa del Migrante in Matamoros, said they will likely get deported by U.S. authorities.

"Most of them are going to pass (referring to somehow crossing into the US) but we don't doubt that there will be an (immigration deportation) operation," Sierra Vargas said.

For the migrants, it's a dream to make it to the US, he said. Haitians have been migrating to the U.S. in large numbers from South America for several years, many of them having left the Caribbean nation after a devastating earthquake in 2010. 

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Published September 20th, 2021 at 07:02 IST

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