Gabeau

Ms Gabeau, who is 21 and entering her final year at Harvard, says she believes her race "100% played a factor in my application", including through an application essay.

Dr. Geralde Gabeau and others with the Haitian-Americans United, are actively urging residents to trek to the polling place.

And a woman in Massachusetts was warned by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this week that she wouldn’t be able to re-enter the country if she attempted to attend her father’s funeral in Haiti this weekend, Gabeau said.