As Delmas Oslet watched the Haitian men¡¯s national soccer team earn its first spot in the World Cup in five decades, he said he was filled with ¡°happiness, happiness, happiness.¡±

But there were also tinges of pain.

Oslet, 49, left Haiti in search of a better life more than 20 years ago because of social instability. He couldn¡¯t help but think now, he said, of the hundreds of thousands of others who had fled since then.