The unrest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, escalated over the weekend as heavily armed gangs targeted government buildings, including the National Palace, and set fire to parts of the Interior Ministry using petrol bombs. These attacks are part of a wave of violence that has seen gangs wreak havoc across the city, torching airports, police stations, and prisons, resulting in the release... 

Haitian migrants have been released from crowded jails in Arizona and California as officials struggle to keep up with the number of those trying to enter the US illegally from Mexico. They have been released on the condition that they agree to return to immigration court on a decided date and are allowed to live in society monitored by ankle tags until then. An unnamed official said the immigrants... 

Florida voters don’t want immigration laws waived to make it easier for Haitians to stay in the United States or immigrate into the country, a new poll shows. Fifty-one percent of 1,618 registered Florida voters surveyed by Quinnipiac (Conn.) University said they wanted immigration laws enforced compared to 43 percent opposed to them being waived in the wake of the deadly Haitian earthquake... 

Vice President Joe Biden came to Miami on Saturday to assure Haitian-American leaders that the administration was committed to Haiti’s recovery, for as long as it takes. Biden sought to spread the message from President Barack Obama far and wide, from the Little Haiti Cultural Center to the Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church to Homestead Air Reserve Base, which has loaded and launched...