A Haitian man's brutal experience with U.S. border agents sparked outrage. Now he's telling his story
, argued that it evoked an ugly history of slavery. In the days after the incident, President Joe Biden condemned the USBP’s use of horses in the arrests, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched an internal investigation into the Del Rio horse patrol.
Haitian migrants leave the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after being expelled from the U.S.In the days after he took the photo, Ratje set out to find his subject, walking the length of the tent city on the Mexican side of the border and giving out his contact information to anyone who would take it. Months later, in December, Ratje’s phone rang. Two men were on the line.
Raised in Saint-Louis du Nord, a small coastal city in northern Haiti, Joseph says he’s spent his life avoiding violence. He grew up playing soccer in the streets, where he became a lifelong fan of the Spanish team Real Madrid. Now 42, the father of six, he still slips away whenever he can to watch soccer or the Los Angeles Lakers, his neck bent over his phone, a quiet smile tripping across his normally reserved face.
A young girl walks in front of the ruins of the Notre-Dame Cathedral church, which was damaged in the devastating 7.0-magnitude 2010 earthquake, in downtown Port-au-Prince.Joseph's youngest daughter Fraurie Joseph Prospere, 2, traveled with him and his wife, Madeleine Prospere, to Del Rio in September 2021. Prospere and Fraurie, who was born in Chile, migrated back to Chile, where Joseph hopes to join them.
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