Haiti, Now Out of Options, Will Need More Help as It Falls to the Rule of Gangs and Its Citizens Flee to America

Crisis has been years in the making and the country now faces the ‘utter lack of state authority.’

AP/Odelyn Joseph
Journalists take cover from the exchange of gunfire between gangs and police at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 11, 2024. AP/Odelyn Joseph

While the plight of Haitian migrants in places like Springfield, Ohio, has garnered attention in recent months, far less focus has been placed on why tens of thousands of people are fleeing the small Caribbean nation. For more than three years, Haiti has been consumed by conflict, and the situation on the ground is deteriorating rapidly, leaving the United States with little choice but to take more decisive action. 

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