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Stranded Haitian migrants seek new home on Mexico-U.S. border

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Some 3,500 Haitians are now in the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali

By Lizbeth Diaz

TIJUANA, Mexico, March 16 (Reuters) - Kneeling on a patch of flat earth with a shovel in hand, Thea Nonce Jean tips cement where a floor is about to be laid.

His house is the first to be built in a tiny Haitian community on the edge of Tijuana, Mexico, a city just south of the U.S. border.

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