Haitians are paying up to $10,000 and traveling miles to reach US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Any Haitians not expelled are subject to immigration laws, which include rights to seek asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection.
47% : The only obvious parallel for such an expulsion without an opportunity to seek asylum was in 1992 when the Coast Guard intercepted Haitian refugees at sea, said Yael Schacher, senior U.S. advocate at Refugees International whose doctoral studies focused on the history of U.S. asylum law.
36% : On top of this, Border Patrol authorities said that despite the U.S. starting to resolve the issue, they believe the criminal gangs and cartels in South and Central America are working against them by paying for Haitians to make the dangerous journey.
36% : The rapid expulsions were made possible by a pandemic-related authority adopted by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 that allows for migrants to be immediately removed from the country without an opportunity to seek asylum.

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