SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
Reed's is one of 55 families from Tennessee to California asking the U.S. government for humanitarian parole for some 70 children they’re adopting. It was an opportunity the U.S. granted to more than a dozen other children earlier this year when gangs attacked key government infrastructure and forced Haiti’s main international airport, prompting evacuations of dozens of U.S. citizens and 39 children from March to May who had final adoption decrees.
“Why aren’t they doing that for our kids?” asked Emmerson, who lives in the U.S. and requested that his last name be withheld for safety since he and his wife, who are adopting his niece and nephew, have family in Haiti. The department said it “understands and empathizes with the concerns and frustration of U.S. families adopting from Haiti.”
The U.N. noted in a recent report that ever since Haiti’s judicial year started in October 2023, “courts have been operational for barely ten days.” “All indicators remain extremely worrying,” he said during his visit to Haiti. “The first and most concerning of them, insecurity.”as part of a U.N.-backed mission to help quell gang violence only recently launched joint operations with Haiti’s police and military as the U.S. ponders a U.N. peacekeeping operation after warning that the current mission lacks resources.
Reed recalled how, after arriving in the U.S., her two older sons slept in a single twin bed despite having two available and held each other through the night.Fighting alongside Reed is Emmerson and his wife, Michelle, who also asked that her name be withheld for safety.
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