39-yeard old Haitian Fasio Etienne feels old. With a life expectancy of 50 years in his country, he wants to go to Brazil to work fast while he has the strength.

Migrating was the only option he had in order to maintain his parents, his wife and three daughters, whom he had to leave.

Fasio wants to travel to Brazil fast, but cant. He’s been at the Brazilian boarder, in Peru, for the past nine days. Brazilian federal police stopped him when he tried to cross.

Two weeks ago Brazil’s government decided to stop the wave of Haitian immigrants. More than six thousand Haitians migrated to Brazil in 2011.

Fasio was not the first Haitian they closed their doors to. As of yesterday, 254 Haitians were stranded in Iñapari – Mayor Celso Curi counted them himself.

They have camped out at the town’s temple and at facilities of the regional Madre de Dios government.

Food is brought over from Assis, Brazil, and health care is provided by Iñapari’s medical station.

Most of the Haitians took the same road to get to Madre de Dios. Traveling from Port Au Prince to Santo Domingo, Panama, Lima, Cusco, and finally Iñapari.

Fasio – who has been nicknamed ‘Fabio’, to avoid confusion in Madre de Dios – traveled the same route.

He is the leader of the group of Haitians here, and tries to talk to Brazilian authorities every day, in an effort to negotiate entry into the country.

Father Rene Salizar, a priest at the church housing several of the Haitians, says that many back in Haiti don’t know that the borders are closed. He says several agencies that promise to help them get across are misleading them.

"I invested all my money to come, $3,200. I have nothing. I cannot return to the same misery in my country," says Fasio.

Mayor Celso is concerned. Iñapari – population 2,500 – saw its population increase by 10 percent in a week. "We have water two hours a day and now we can no longer cope," he says.

On Friday he spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. "He said they had issued a request for Haitians to ask for a visa to enter the country, but every day we receive between 15 and 20 Haitians here," Celso says.

It has been nine days and Fasio hopes they will let him cross on the tenth day.

"I just want to work, my friends are builders, I want my family to survive," he says.