(EFE).- A little over three months ago, Ecuador joined a growing list of countries in Latin America that Haitian migrants are crossing on their journey north.
The migration of Haitians to the United States has been a growing phenomenon since June, when many decided to leave their homes in Brazil and Chile in search of the ‘American dream’.
But the surge in migration has also increased the lucrative business of smugglers.
Since the summer, some 450 to 650 Haitian migrants have been arriving daily in Tulcan, according to Fernando Villarroel, administrator of the bus terminal in the Ecuadorian city on the border with Colombia.
Tulcan is their last stop in Ecuador before crossing the Carchi River to Colombia, a route that has seen thousands of Venezeulan migrants in the past five years.
Upon their arrival in Tulcan, ‘coyoteros’ pick up the migrants in private vehicles, a service that costs from 15 to 25 dollars per person.
The surge of migrants and smugglers has also led to increased police presence at border points.
Ecuadorian police have led multiple operations in an attempt to stop the illegal trafficking of migrants, leading to shootings between gangs and the police.
This week, one person was killed in a shooting.
“Unfortunately (the migrants) are used by unscrupulous people who deceive these foreign citizens,” head of Carchi province police operations, Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Flores Borja, told Efe.
The officer said some migrants have been extorted to pay over 1,000 dollars.
Over 4,000 migrants are currently waiting on Ecuadorian territory to cross into Colombia, which is asking for support from neighboring countries that are faced with a similar situation.
“There are children, we need humanitarian aid for them”, according to Jhon Rojas, governor of the Colombian department of Nariño.
Colombia reported more than 27,000 mainly Haitian people entered its territory irregularly in August, mostly from Ecuador.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expressed its concern over the situation of Haitian migrants who are in “very precarious conditions” at the U.S.-Mexico border. EFE
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We the U.S.A. have immigration laws, But as we have all see that the traitorous, puppet president Biden and his traitorous socialist Democrat puppeteers and the Democrat ruled Congressional cult have no regards for our laws or our U.S. Constitution and encourage, support, protect and transport multi-million illegal diseased immigrants into our country.
TIME we started carpet bombing the heck out of that entire border… EVEN IF THE ILLEGAL invaders are in the target zone.
THEN MINE IT UP.
Coyotes and smugglers of humans or drugs in any form once casught should face the death penalty because death in the form of drug overdoses and death due to gun violence on our streets is exactly what they are selling their customers ,whose criminal mindsets enrich and enable the smugglers ,make them just as guilty. They are making war on the peaceful American sides of ourt society and nobody in power today seems to care or even want to acknowledge they exist. This is not leadership, unless it is the criminals they themselves are leading.
Their sentence should be SWIFTLY Carried out by border patrol.
By the Border Patrol? That’s extreme even for you, Ituser. Ever heard of the court system?
You mean the same court system that REPEATEDLY LETS OUT criminals to reofffend? The same criminal system that LET EVERY DAMN RIOTER get off scott free, but is STILL HOLDING without bail, all those from the sixth?
The same court system that actually has had a # OF JUDGES willfully shelter/shield illegal aliens from ICE agents?
THAT SAME SYSTEM!?!?
Pray tell dove, WHY IN GODS NAME would i ever trust it?
Ituser, you have a penchant for proposing unworkable, frequently illegal, “solutions” to problems. Carpet bomb the border (would you at least give legitimate refugees and immigrants time to clear out? Oh, and that would probably scorch Trump’s wall a tad)? Give every Border Patrol LEO with a sidearm or long gun a “License to Kill”? Big James Bond fan, are you? Wish I knew how to do that emoji thing, Id leave you with a smile.
Sorry about the typos, the editor is stuck on “saving.” Again.
IF they passed through at least ONE OTHER nation, before getting to our border, THEY ARE NOT LEGITIMATE refugees..
One other nation that offers sanctuary, which, in the case of Central American or South American countries is every nation in Central America, if memory serves. Might be one that doesn’t, but I can’t think of any.