‘We have to put ourselves in their shoes’

The World

Thousands of Haitians who had hoped to seek asylum in the US are arriving at Haiti’s main airport. Haiti’s fragile government has little aid to offer the arriving deportees. Giuseppe Loprete, chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration in Haiti, tells The World’s host Marco Werman that Haiti is facing multiple crises and “it is not a safe place.”

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