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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Megan Janetsky

Spiraling Haiti violence and airline shutdowns cut families off from adoptive kids

Haiti Violence - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The last words Michelle Reed heard from her 6-year-old adopted son, Esai Reed, in early November were: “Mom, come get me.”

But after U.S. aviation authorities on Tuesday blocked airlines from traveling to Haiti for 30 days following the shooting of a number of planes by gangs, 51-year-old Reed is once again cut off from her adoptive son, who lives in an orphanage in Haiti waiting for paperwork to go through a bureaucratic process hamstrung by Haiti's spiraling crisis.

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