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Haitians have fled their troubled country for years, attempting to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by heading north across the open sea or trekking across the island of Hispaniola to scratch out a living in the Dominican Republic.But a newly popular route has caught officials in the Caribbean by surprise, one that is taking migrants to a piece of the U.S. much closer to home.Hundreds of Haitian migrants have made their way to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico in recent months, finding that if they can make it there without getting arrested, it's relatively easy to fly on to U.S. cities such as Miami, Boston or New York without even having to show a passport."As soon as you're in Puerto Rico, it's like you're in the United States," said Lolo Sterne, coordinator for Haiti's Office of Migration.There are no official statistics on how many Haitians have successfully made their way illegally to Puerto Rico, or how many have traveled on to the U.S. mainland. But the trend worries o...
The government has set up a task force to deal with the influx of Haitian immigrants into Brazil's northern state of Acre.The Justice Ministry says representatives o...
At least five people who traveled from rural Haiti to the country’s capital tested positive for cholera when they arrived in Port-au-Prince , health officials said S...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — As the charter jet began backing away from the terminal, Ginel Thermosey slowly turned around to shake hands with the medical student s...
The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge from the fea...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Muddy water flows under the tent and pools around the electric studio lights. Actors sitting at the mock-kitchen table lift their feet ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Health workers feared a surge of cholera cases in the shantytowns and muddy tent camps of Haiti's capital as suspected cases piled up Tuesda...
The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has topped 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area alone, the communications minister said Sunda...
The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge from the fea...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men."They grabbed me,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — A small earthquake struck northern Haiti early Sunday, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three people, a U.N. spoke...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — People ran screaming from buildings Monday as a mild tremor rattled a Haitian capital still traumatized by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquak...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Six Haitian children cling to Lt. Ben Stollerman's hands, sleeves and fatigue pants as the U.S. Navy engineer negotiates one of Haiti's...
Federal Emergency Task Force One rescued six people in quake-ravaged Haiti
Rioters protest Haiti's disputed elections
A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to rea...
A former Haitian bishop who presided over the lavish wedding of former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and was viewed as a supporter of the regime has died....
Haitian detectives are investigating the killing of a Canadian priest who was shot to death Thursday as he left a bank in the Caribbean nation's capital, authorities...
In the tight rows of chairs stretched across the Commonwealth Ballroom, the nervousness — already dialed high by two bombs, three deaths and more than 72 hours witho...
Brazilian officials said Tuesday they were closely following the investigation into the explosions at the Boston Marathon as they consider whether to change security...