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Justo Robles in Tijuana

The Haitians who built a community in Tijuana – but are still stranded

A Haitian family leaves after a Sunday mass in the suburbs of Tijuana, Mexico, in 2018.
A Haitian family leaves after a Sunday mass in the suburbs of Tijuana, Mexico, in 2018. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

About six miles west from downtown Tijuana, on Mexico’s border with California, visitors can spot a billboard erected years ago that reads: “Little Haiti, City of God.”

The area was once the home of thousands of Haitian migrants stranded in this north-western Mexican city as they tried to defy the tightening of US immigration policies.

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