It is very easy on the one hand to be critical of people who cross the border, but U.S. corporations are fleecing the people of these countries of their resources. If there was an equitable wage within the region, if infrastructure could be developed, there are many people who would not want to leave Mexico and other Latin American countries to come here, Haiti included. I just returned from Haiti where hunger and starvation are common. There are people who simply drink sugar water to blunt their hunger. There is very little currency moving within poor communities, and the people are hungry.
Torture is still taking place, there are systematic shootings in populated neighborhoods.
What I observed on my visit to Haiti were things that were taking place before the embargo. For example, at one hospital in the countryside, the reason most people are admitted is because of malnutrition. Haiti, and Port au Prince in particular, has become like a dung heap. You have these heaps of garbage, anywhere from three to seven feet high, with a putrefying odor. And there are kids and old people and pigs and goats that all are rummaging through the same garbage for food.