With Haitian migration growing, a Mexico City family of doctors is helping out

At a clinic in the working class neighborhood, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City, Doctor Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian migrants. She has turned her family-run clinic into a safe haven for Haitian migrants whether they are planning to stay in Mexico or continue the journey north toward the U.S. She not only gives new arrivals the opportunity to work, but to find community in a new country. Surging violence in Haiti has displaced nearly 580,000 Haitians internally since March, according to the U.N. migration agency. Many Haitian migrants have been stuck in Mexico for months waiting for their asylum appointments through U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s online app.