In January 2010, an earthquake in Haiti left hundreds of thousands of
people dead, injured, and displaced, and over a million homeless.1 Three
weeks after the earthquake, Haitian authorities arrested a group of Idaho
missionaries for attempting to cross the border into the Dominican Republic
with 33 children, without papers or proper authorization.2 The missionaries
claimed they had the good intentions to set up an orphanage,3 but
investigations showed that none of the children were orphans and that the
missionaries may have been attempting to smuggle the children out of Haiti
to be adopted internationally.