THE TRAIL OF TRAGEDIES.

As their limited opportunities in Brazil and the discrimination against them in Mexico demonstrated, poor Black migrants like Essengue and Dalmacy are at the bottom of a de facto migrant hierarchy. Title 42 coincided with another policy of which Essengue and Dalmacy were unaware: the Migrant Protection Protocols, sometimes referred to as the "Remain in Mexico" policy, in which certain asylum seekers who pass a credible-fear screening are forced to stay in Mexico to await their asylum hearing. While the nation's own history of slavery casts its shadow, the origins of the United States' anti-Black immigration policies can also be traced to Dalmacy's home country of Haiti - more specifically, to the US response to the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, when Haiti defeated the French to become the first free Black republic in the Americas. FEATURES JULLIANA ESSENGUE ARRIVED IN TAPACHULA, MEXICO, FROM SÃO PAULO, Brazil, in March 2020. [Extracted from the article]