October 3, 2021
Well-heeled Haitian migrants heading north drive poor Colombians out of their homes
By Monica Showalter
The press and its Democrat allies are portraying a wave of Haitian migrants heading north from South America as just poor, pitiful, refugees looking for relief from poverty.
Turns out that's not the case.
It's well-known that most of those coming up are country-shoppers rather than refugees, having been previously resettled in prosperous Chile and Brazil as refugees a decade ago. What's more, a lot of them have gotten jobs and made money.
Which is why we are seeing what we are seeing as some 60,000 of them make their way into Colombia and beyond on the path to the U.S. According to Reuters:
NECOCLI, Colombia, Oct 1 (Reuters) - An influx of thousands of mostly Haitian migrants seeking transport northward toward the United States is pushing locals in the Colombian beach town of Necocli out of housing, residents said, as landlords favor migrants able to pay in dollars.
The backlog of migrants waiting in the town for scarce places on boat transport toward the jungles of the Darien Gap in Panama, where smugglers guide groups northward on foot, has swelled to up to 19,000 after the lifting of COVID-19 border closures.
Though many migrants, low on cash, are sleeping in tents or on the town's beach, others are able to rent rooms by the day or share houses.
That has pushed out dozens of permanent residents.
"The owners of the house, without mincing words, just said they needed us to move out as quickly as possible," said dance teacher Yesid Puche.
"From a moral standpoint it's a bit sad that the same people from the town where you grew up will turn their backs on you for a few pesos."
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