On the same day that 509 Haitians landed back in Haiti from an evacuated migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas, this week, hundreds of undocumented Haitians were spotted wading in the crystal blue waters off an uninhabited cay in the southern Bahamas after their green and yellow wooden sloop sank.
Believing they were en route to Florida, the 400 or so migrants were finally apprehended over three days by Bahamian authorities and taken from the Ragged Cay Island chain to the island of Great Inagua, where they joined some 500 other Haitian nationals who had been apprehended days earlier.
Despite the repatriation of more than 3,400 Haitians from the United States’ southern border with Mexico and the clearing a week ago of two camps, one underneath an international bridge in Del Rio and the other across from the Rio Grande in Ciudad Acuña, the Haitian migration problem continues and may be getting worse.
