How History Is Repeating Itself for Haitian Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : And how do you transition that into raising larger questions about the validity of the immigration system as a whole, of borders as a whole and of people's ability to seek asylum?"
45% : The founding of the U.S.'s first modern-day detention center, Nofil says, can in fact be largely traced back to an earlier influx of Haitian migrants, who arrived in the U.S. in the 1970s hoping to claim asylum after fleeing political instability.
39% : just days after mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents were photographed confronting migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. to make asylum claims.

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