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Some of the people deported to Haiti tried to get back on a plane used by the US government.
Haiti’s main airport was engulfed in riots and chaos when migrants deported from the United States arrived in the country.
Several people ran back to the plane they had taken to the capital, Port-au-Prince this week, while others threw boots at the plane.
Over the weekend, the US began deporting immigrants from the Texas border region, which has seen a huge influx in recent weeks. About 13,000 people gathered under the bridge connecting Del Rio, Texas, with the city of Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, to try to cross the bridge.
In addition, there are thousands of reports of arrests of people, most of them Haitians, near the Colombian-Panamanian border. Some of them will go to the USA.
The confusion began at Toussaint-Louverture Airport when the man again tried to board a plane from the US. The plane’s crew had to rush to close the plane’s doors before it could get inside, according to the Reuters news agency.
Footage filmed at the airport shows people struggling to get their personal belongings back after luggage was thrown from a plane from the US. There are reports that some migrants were not notified that they would be sent back to Haiti.
According to a statement released by the US Department of Homeland Security, there were two incidents involving flights that brought Haitians back.
NBC News has learned that the pilots of one of the flights were beaten upon arrival in Haiti, and three US immigration officers were injured.
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Things of the deportees were thrown from the plane that brought them from the United States
In another incident in the US state of Texas, a group of Haitians reportedly got into a fight with US government border guards and tried to flee after realizing they were being deported. They were taken on a city bus from Brownsville to Del Rio.
“When the migrants found out they were going to be sent back to Haiti, they got on the bus and fled,” said Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Services Council.
The deportation of migrants has been criticized by the country-based NGO Partners In Health.
“In a difficult and dangerous time for Haiti, it is unthinkable and cruel to send men, women and children back to what many of them do not even call “home”.”
Many Haitians fled the country after the devastating earthquake in 2010, and a large number of those who lived in rural areas lived in Brazil or other countries in South America and traveled north after being unable to find work or legal status.
Deportations may increase
About 4,000 people have been deported or transferred to other detention centers, according to the US government. The number of deportations is expected to increase to seven per day, according to the Washington Post.
The Associated Press also reported that authorities in other countries are also releasing Haitian migrants into the US “on a very, very large scale.”
On the other hand, the Colombian government said that about 19,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, were stranded near the border with Panama. They often cross Panama and walk on the long journey north to the US.
Many migrants are currently stranded near the border due to an agreement between the two countries that limits the number of migrants crossing Uraba Bay to Panama to 250 per day, a senior Colombian official said.
He added that many migrants are risking their lives trying to illegally cross the bay at night in boats without adequate security.
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Most of the migrants detained at the US border this week were Haitians.
Those who finally made it to the US and were detained while crossing the border are now waiting for a decision in a temporary camp at a temperature of 37 ° C. There are many complaints about inadequate food and sanitation.
The majority in the camp are Haitians, but there are also Cubans, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans. There is no official information about the presence of Brazilians.
Data from the US Customs and Border Protection Agency shows that the number of Brazilians illegally crossing the US southern border has reached a record high in the past ten months. From October 2020 to August this year, 46,410 Brazilians were detained – six times more than in the same period earlier.
In August alone, there were 9,098 transition attempts, the highest number since the beginning of fiscal year 2021 (October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021).
Videos and images of several U.S. border guards on horseback chasing and attacking migrants with an alleged whip near the Rio Grande, in an area bordering the small municipality of Del Rio in the U.S. state of Texas, have sparked controversy in the country.
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The White House called the reports “terrible”; In the picture, a border guard snatches clothes from an immigrant in Texas.
The footage shows the agents wielding tools that some are calling “whips,” though authorities say they are “reins” used to “ensure control of the horse.”
“There was a continuous stream and (agents) were saying, ‘No, you can’t get in. Go back to Mexico.” But people said, “But my family is there,” said AFP photographer Paul Rathier. news agency, the Washington Post.
This was because some migrants moved to Mexico to buy food and water for themselves and their families, which were in short supply on the American side, and returned to a temporary camp under a bridge in the municipality of Del Rio.
Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar described the actions of the border guards as a “violation of human rights” and as “cruel, inhuman and a violation of national and international law.”
US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Majorcas assured that the facts would be investigated, calling the plight of migrants “difficult and painful.”
However, he warned: “If you enter the United States illegally, you will be returned. Your trip will not be successful and you will endanger your life and the life of your family.”
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