Tijuana's 'Little Haiti' stalled but migrants planting roots
Nancy Moya, Associated Press
Updated 9:49 am, Monday, June 11, 2018
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Brightly colored clothes air from lines strung between rudimentary plywood-sided homes. Cinderblocks stacked chest-high form the skeletons of unfinished houses, and a pile of unused rebar lies in the dirt patio.
A billboard puts a name to what has become something of a neighborhood interrupted: "Little Haiti. City of God."
The arid hillside barrio, on property belonging to the Ambassadors of Jesus evangelical church, made headlines last year when nearly 3,000 Haitians ended up in this city bordering San Diego on a failed bid to get to the United States. About 200 were taken in by the church.
But the church's plans to build a community for Haitians hit a roadblock when civil defense officials said there was a flood risk and barred further construction. A year later, just eight of the 100 homes envisioned are in place, with another 50 people or so living in similar conditions in nearby Scorpion Canyon.
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