‘They treated us like animals’: Haitians angry and in despair at being deported from US
Sep 26, 2021
3 minutes
When Evens Delva waded across the Rio Grande with his wife and two daughters, he had dreams of starting a new life in Florida. But less than a week later, he and his family stepped on to the tarmac in Port-au-Prince, the sweltering and chaotic capital of Haiti, with nothing except traumatic memories and a feeling of bubbling anger.
Delva, along with nearly 2,000 other Haitians, was , despite having lived in Chile for the past six years and having few remaining connections to his home country. His, and speaks more Spanish than Haitian Creole.
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