“It’s heartbreaking for me. You know, I have family still in Haiti, and it breaks my heart every day because you’re just waiting for that phone call. You hear from family members: ‘There’s heavy shooting.’ ‘I have guns under my pillow.’ ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen to us.’ ‘We can’t leave or we don’t want to leave,’” says U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the only Haitian American in Congress.
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/03/11/cherfilus-mccormick-recounts-horrors-facing-her-own-family-members-in-haiti-offers-possible-solutions-to-gang-fueled-crisis/