Brianna Lee – International Business Times, 5/29/2015
Five years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Haitian emigrants are still taking long, arduous journeys to find better lives outside the country. And migrant shelters are filling up not just in Miami or Puerto Rico – but in the border towns and cities of Brazil.
In the northwest state of Acre, migrants arrive by the busload every day with hopes of finding permanent homes and stable jobs in the country. The main shelter in Acre, with a capacity of 200, is currently housing around 1,000 migrants, according to the chief prosecutor of the state’s Public Ministry of Labor. This week he filed a request for Brazil’s federal government to take on some of the financial support for migrants in the shelter and transport out of Acre to Brazil’s major cities.
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