Nearly all Haitian migrants currently staying in a large Mexican border city reportedly intend on crossing into the U.S. – either legally or illegally.
Officials at the Haitian consulate in Tijuana recently told Border Report that at least 95% of their fellow citizens amassed in Baja California have plans to eventually head north.
Consulate administrator Wisly Desir says thousands of Haitians are temporarily living in Tijuana, which lies just south of San Diego, California.
“Many believe God is part of this place called America, that’s why they want to cross into the United States,” Desir said.
“Even those who have made a life for themselves in Tijuana, they are still curious as to what lies behind the border and may still cross at some point,” he went on. “There was a family that owned two restaurants, had a grocery store, house and cars, but decided to abandon everything they had in the city and ventured across the border three years ago and never came back.”
Desir says it’s unclear exactly how many Haitians are in the Tijuana area because so many have passed through in recent years on their way to the U.S.
“They’re always crossing, some stay around long enough to wait for their families, but it’s hard to say when a person crosses or arrives in Tijuana, it’s hard to place a number,” he explained.
Roughly 5% of Haiti’s population has already migrated to the U.S., with hundreds of thousands arriving under the Biden-Harris regime alone, overwhelming small cities and towns like Springfield, Ohio, where more than 20,000 settled in the past few years alone.
Haitians comprise one of the largest groups taking advantage of the CBP One app, whereby nearly a million ‘migrants’ have secured asylum appointments at ports of entry along the southern border before being ushered into the U.S. by Customs and Border Protection.
Additionally, well over 200,000 Haitians have flown into the U.S. via the CHNV parole program in the past two years.
