Migrants say they’ll stay, legally or not

“Sabrina lives in constant fear.

The 28-year-old fled Haiti in 1992, because, she said, as a young student activist she was being persecuted by the military government that had ousted then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide the year before. Now, after living half her lifetime in Miami, she faces deportation - an appeals board last year reversed an immigration judge’s ruling to grant her political asylum.

“Every day brings fear and stress,” she said recently.”

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