Police made emergency calls for backup, asserting that 50% of the Artibonite region had fallen under gang control.
American woman Alix Dorsainvil and her young child have been freed and are safe after being kidnapped in Haiti roughly two weeks ago.
Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Toussaint, of Tamarac, Florida, were in Haiti to see ailing relatives and attend a community festival when they were kidnapped while traveling on a bus from Port-au-Prince, their family said.
According to a translator, the migrant family traveled from Haiti to Chile to Mexico with their 2-year-old before crossing into U.S. territory.
Now that they're in the U.S. some of the migrants have no idea where to go or what to do, but a man who once made the same journey is stepping in to help.
A Houston attorney says there's 'some amount of subjectivity' officials must use when deciding which migrants can remain in America.