Expulsion to Haiti, retreat to Mexico or detention in the United States – these have been the options facing more than 14,000 mostly Haitian migrants who camped under a bridge in the US state of Texas last week, hoping to gain asylum.But while thousands have been deported from the US, and those who remain face a similar fate, rights groups say Haitian asylum seekers, many of them families with children, will keep coming in search of protection.“This is not a deterrence measure or even a Band-Aid solution,” said Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, an organisation that assists Haitian migrants, of the US expulsion policy.
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