In San Diego, Haitians watch their community shrink as regretful countrymen pack up and head to Canada
SAN DIEGO - Her best friend was one of the first to go. Then the two families she shared a three-bedroom house with headed north. Finally, the nanny.
Over the course of three months, Josiane Valsaint watched fellow Haitians pull up roots, pack and make for Canada.
They traveled to Quebec, finding French speakers like themselves and a well-established Haitian community.
"It's hard for me to see all my friends leave," Valsaint, 37, said mournfully. "They now have to start over, again."
Only a blip of time ago, 200 Haitians squeezed into the Haitian Methodist Ministry for evening services. Only 25 showed up earlier this month.
The church was so spare that Nahomie Labady, a Haitian woman
