US launches an unprecedented operation to expel thousands of Haitian migrants camped around a bridge in Del Rio in Texas
The US is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades.
In all, US authorities moved to expel many of the more than 12,000 migrants camped around a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, after crossing from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.The US plans to begin seven expulsion flights daily on Wednesday, four to Port-au-Prince and three to Cap-Haitien. Similarly large numbers of Mexicans have been sent home during peak years of immigration but over land and not so suddenly.Central Americans have also crossed the border in comparable numbers without being subject to mass expulsion, although Mexico has agreed to accept them from the US under pandemic-related authority in effect since March 2020.
Mexico said it would deport Haitian migrants, and began busing them from Ciudad Acuña on Sunday evening.
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