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Step back for a moment from Donald Trump and JD Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants in the United States: How did these people come to be here in the first place?

The Editorial Board writes that, just as Americans must ignore the smears coming from the Republican presidential ticket, they must also refocus attention on the humanitarian crisis still unfolding in Haiti and forcing Haitians to flee.

The editorial provides a quick catch-up on the governance crisis that hit new depths after the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president. A Kenya-led mission to restore order has made some progress but has been limited by a lack of funding.

Haiti needs elections, the board writes, but before that, it needs security. And before that, it needs money. The United States needs to pressure other Group of 20 countries to increase their support, the board says, or “there will be a lot more Haitians trying to flee the mayhem, including to the United States.”

Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explains in an op-ed how she has struggled to figure out how to defend newly and not-so-newly arrived Haitians against such slanderous, violent invective, which is itself an American tradition. (The Thomas........

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