EFE/Latin American Herald Tribune, 01/02/2011
Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants crossed into Brazil from Bolivia in the last three days of 2011, joining some 700 of their compatriots who live in an improvised shelter in the Amazonian town of Brasileia, a source in the Acre state government told Efe Monday.
The mass immigration occurred in just a few days because of rumors that Brazil considered blocking Haitians from entering anywhere along its Amazonian border beginning this year, the source said.
Over the last two years Brazil has welcomed hundreds of Haitians who entered the country illegally looking for better living conditions following the 2010 earthquake, and who were given humanitarian visas since they could be considered neither asylum seekers nor political refugees.
