Mario Antonio Palacios, allegedly a member of the mercenary crew that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise last year, has been arrested by US authorities in Panama while in transit from Jamaica to his home Colombia. The former Colombian military member was intercepted at the airport in Panama on Monday and …
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The man speaking in the video threatens to kill “these Americans” if he does not get what has been demanded. The man in the video was identified as Wilson Joseph, believed to be the head of the 400 Mawozo gang, which is behind the kidnapping. Joseph is wearing a purple …
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Over the weekend, the kidnappers contacted Christian Aid Ministries – an Ohio-based missionary group whose members were kidnapped – and demanded the ransom, Haitian Justice Minister Liszt Quitel told several US media outlets on Tuesday. The missionary group has been in contact with the gang since then and several phone …
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Appearing on ‘Fox News Sunday’, Mayorkas was asked by host Chris Wallace how many of the thousands of migrants who had been photographed waiting to be processed at the bridge had been released. “I think it’s about 10,000 or so… 12,000,” Mayorkas said. Around 3,000 others have been detained, but …
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According to a NBC News report on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a contract solicitation last week for “at least 50” guards, a tenth of whom should be fluent in “Spanish and Haitian Creole” to be available on a 24-hour notice for work at a detention facility in …
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As Biden begins the mass expulsion of Haitian refugees – around 14,000 of whom have showed up under a bridge in the Texas border town of Del Rio in recent weeks, many fleeing natural disaster and political turmoil in their home country – members of his own party have rejected …
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Haitian refugees have been released on a “very, very large scale” over the last week, one US official with “direct knowledge” of the situation told the AP on Tuesday, suggesting the number could be in the thousands. Another official who declined to be named confirmed that many of the migrants …
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Joe Biden’s administration has lurched from one embarrassment to another on immigration policy. From the unedifying spectacle of another ‘kids in cages’ controversy to the Supreme Court forcing the reinstatement of the ‘Stay in Mexico’ policy, and the empty platitudes of Kamala Harris’ “do not come” speech, this administration has …
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“We decided to declare the State of Siege [in] the whole country,” Joseph said in a televised address broadcast on national television following an emergency meeting of Haiti’s Council of Ministers. “We don’t want the country to plunge into chaos,” he added. A declaration of a state of siege is …
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