Haitian Refugees Are Not Dogs: Learning From the Canaanite Woman | Sojourners

Haitian Refugees Are Not Dogs: Learning From the Canaanite Woman

Trucks transporting detained undocumented leave an immigration detention center in the Dominican Republic to be deported on May 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Henry Romero

Despite the familiarity of home, Haitian citizens are attempting to leave their country to flee to the United States and neighboring countries in hopes of a better life. Some Haitians are doing this illegally. But what does it mean to enter a country illegally? What are we to make of borders and those who seek to cross them?

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