Hey Nadez.

Hey Kai.

So we've turned to you to understand the relationship between Haiti and the United States and now a lot of

displaced Haitians have been deported from the U.S. Mexico border.

People are still coming.

So as someone who has reported on this in some degree and has ties to the community, what is your hope

for how we would interact with displaced people when they arrive here?

Being heard is the hope, or one of the main things for me that comes to mind is like why not let

people make their case you're coming here to be heard and seeking asylum is not an illegal act in order to seek asylum you have to be here on US soil

It's the silencing for me right? It's the what are you afraid of like why are you afraid to hear the human stories?

They put everything on the line to get here so why not hear them once they're here?

That is the question we are going to try to answer together tonight.

Has anyone in your family history ever had to flee their home?

My background was Haitian and African American.

My grandmother's mother was a slave.

So when I was younger and growing up I would hear that story.

Seeing right now what's going on in Haiti

or even what's going on in Texas in our country,

dealing with Haitians that are coming across the border

and fleeing and just trying to get into country but they're getting

whipped like creatures are animals and knowing I'm half-patient you know what I mean it's just

disturbing it gives me anxiety seeing that this is going on and it's happening to my culture and my race.

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