For many Haitian migrants who arrive in Boston from South America and Mexico, they now find themselves stuck in limbo instead of the land of opportunity. Officials with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services blame the long wait on labor shortages, as well as a backlog of applications left to them by former President Donald Trump’s administration.
Nearly every day, scores of Haitian men and women, some of whom walked thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United States, make their way to a modest office in Mattapan Square, the headquarters of the nonprofit Immigrant Family and Service Institute (IFSI). The migrants, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the US government, are looking for help