Update - Phoebe Jean

 

UPDATE - PHOEBE JEAN

Phoebe was examined by the visiting American surgeon at Bernard Mevs Hospital. He told the family that the anus is not too small anymore and that the main thing is to prevent infection and see how Phoebe does. He told the family that she would have to have follow visits every month and that if the anus doesn't heal than he would perform a surgery to form the colostomy and repair the anus. Pray for Phoebe, that the wound caused by the first surgeon heals and that she doesn't get a serious infection. Phoebe is the first child for Lamique and his wife Micheline. They are good parents and do whatever they can to help her.

Lamique is a cement boss by trade. He recently applied to the Brazilian embassy for a work visa in Brazil. This week he got the approval. Thousands of Haitians have traveled to Brazil, most of them through illegal migration following the drug routes into Brazil. Lamique is immigrating the legal way and his visa request was granted! He came to the house this morning and asked if I could help him pay for an airline ticket. I told him that we weren't able to help him. Pray for Lamique, and that he would be able to find a way to get to Brazil and to be able to support his family. Being a skilled tradesman it will be easier for him to support his family in Brazil rather than Haiti.

Recently the Brazilian government deport 322 Haitians who had traveled illegally to Brazil. Below is the article:

DEPORTATION OF 322 HAITIANS FROM BRAZIL TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
(Alterpresse) - By Edson Wooldy Louidor

Bogota/Sto Domingo - The Director General of Migration from the Dominican Republic, Jose Ricardo Taveras was informed of the deportation of 322 Haitians from Brazil to Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo, learned the Dominican press.

The Dominican official expressed on 21 May his disagreement with the decision of Brazil to deport to his country foreigners, whose place of origin was not the Dominican Republic.

He also announced the decision of the government of President Danilo Medina to not receiven any more Haitian migrants or other nationalities deported from Brazil, who may not pass through the Dominican Republic.

The decision to deport undocumented Haitians located in the Brazilian territory was announced by the government of Dilma Rousseff on January 13, 2012, during the official announcement of the new immigration policy of this country against Haitian immigration .

On occasion, the Minister of Justice of Brazil, Eduardo Cardozo, said that Brazil was determined to regularize the immigration status of all Haitians on its territory until 12 January 2012. But now Haitians entering the country improperly will be asked to turn around and be subsequently deported, he warned.

The official did not specify the country to which Brazil would deport undocumented Haitians. To transit countries: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic or the country, Haiti? Everything seems to indicate that the Dominican Republic was selected by Brazil as the country of deportation; a decision that the Dominican government has not approved.

Pressed by the situation of thousands of Haitians repeatedly blocked at the border with Bolivia and Peru (in the Acre area), Brazil had convened on May 13 a multilateral meeting of the five countries involved in Haitian immigration to South America.

During the meeting, delegates from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, reflected, under the leadership of the Government of Brazil, the need to control the borders to act against the smugglers and to control Haitian migration to the South American region.

The Acre Brazilian local government had to declare a state of emergency several times to seek help from the federal government in Brasilia to cope with the humanitarian crisis affecting thousands of Haitian migrants who arrived at the border.

Brazil seems to be faced with a dilemma: to continue to welcome more and more Haitians on its territory (currently there are over 5000) or seek to deport them.

Why does the government of Dilma Rousseff not repatriate Haitians to their country of origin? This is the question that remains an enigma to many.