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US President Donald Trump’s recent denigrating comments about Haiti shocked people around the globe. His remarks aren’t just offensive – they also reflect an ignorance of migration history, explains Chantelle F. Verna. For centuries, Haitians have been coming to the US, many of them driven from home by the repeated American military occupations and economic embargoes that have destabilised life in this Caribbean nation.
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After Haiti signed its Declaration of Independence from France, in 1804, the U.S. started a 60-year political and economic embargo that hobbled the young nation’s growth.
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Chantalle F. Verna, Florida International University
Trump's anti-Haitian rhetoric ignores a long pattern of migration from Haiti to the U.S., often driven by American meddling in Haitian affairs. Today, the two nations are irrevocably bound by history.
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