Cap-Haïtien

It's more secure.

It's called Cap-Haïtien.

I spent four days there, and it truly surprised me on the upside in such a good way, where I was really happy and thankful that the country was as delightful as it was.

[laughs] Nice.

Um, you have a quote on your website, which I highly encourage everybody to look through the pictures and, and follow, and we'll give all your socials linked to this also You said, "I came back to Haiti because the land called me back, not metaphorically.

I mean, I arrived in Cap-Haïtien in a season of personal unraveling, and the mountains held me in a way that nothing else had.

I stayed, I started paying attention, uh, to what I saw in the soil, the erosion, the loss, and slowly forgetting what once grew here mirrored something I recognized inside of myself." And you talk about that Grown in Haiti was born not from a plan, but from a reckoning.

Can you speak to that?

... no organization, nothing in mind.

Um, and then I got into an accident.

That's what brought me to where I am now, which is a, a beautiful community, Cap-Haïtien, where I used to visit when I was much younger, like when I was like 10, 11, I used to visit that area, and it was just like beautiful.

And the people are beautiful.

to get to Port-au-Prince.

They're sending people, as I understand it, and I could be wrong, but I understand they're sending people up to the city in the north, Cape Haitian, which is, if you're from the Port-au-Prince area, there's not an easy way to get back and forth between Port-au-Prince and Cape Haitian.

The roads are I maybe could even say impassable at certain times of the year.

So, you know, it's problematic.

Between the water and the swamp at Chalmé, there's only one river road, and the earthworks cut across it.

At the end of November, at Cap Francais, on the north coast of Saint-Domingue, General Rochambeau surrenders the last French army in the Caribbean to a British blockade.

He's the son of the general who fought beside George Washington at Yorktown.

The commander of the British squadron at Jamaica, Sir John Duckworth, takes his surrender.

De Grasse has been given very wide orders to be able to negotiate with the Spanish, so...

He arrives in July 1781 in Saint-Domingue, which is modern-day Haiti, in the town of Cap-Francois, which was at the time the main source of wealth and largest sugar colony in the world, and a huge source of wealth for the French.

So that's where Saavedra is sent after Pensacola.

He arrives also in early July 1781. and is introduced to de Grasse by the Soledad de Montaigne, who has taken him there.

We start in Haiti.

Once a week since late August, a plane has left Louisiana carrying Haitians across the sea to the city of Cape Haitian.

Inside are rows of deportees in handcuffs, waist chains, and leg irons.

Many have been living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

But the Department of Homeland Security ended TPS for Haitians in late July.

Today, we're going to focus on what that decision actually means for one individual.

We reached out to the Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles, who's been covering this.

She has been closely following the fate of a 33-year-old Haitian pastor, Molise Agustave.

They've been trying to... spread them.

And also, there were speculation that they're planning on going to Cap-Haitien.

They've tried a few times.

But people are being very vigilant.