From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is a daily.

Today, thousands of Haitians seeking refuge in the United States are being turned away at the

border and deported without being given a chance to apply for asylum. At a moment when their country

is less stable and less safe than ever. A sted herndon spoke to our colleague Mike Sheer about why

that's happening.

It's Monday September 27th.

So tell me what's been going on at the border along Del Rio and Texas.

The crisis on the US Southern border deepens tonight. So about 10 days ago or so,

the border in Del Rio, which is in Texas, suddenly found itself kind of overwhelmed by a group of

Haitians. There are those thousands of migrants who have set up this makeshift camp.

Most of whom had traveled from some from Haiti itself, but many from different parts of South

America where they had been living with the hope of getting into the United States. And within

a matter of days, they are still more than 10,000 migrants, 12,000 migrants, 13,000.

We're talking about nearly 15,000 migrants here. You know what started out as a few hundred

migrants had swelled to thousands. This is what the US's immigration waiting room looks like

in Del Rio, Texas. We're told that they've been sleeping on the dirt surrounded by trash,

out here in this hot Texas sun. Kind of hemmed in in this squalid makeshift camp.

And with food and supplies constantly running short. Which then of course drew the notice of,

you know, the administration, the border patrol, the people who have to figure out what to do about

this and thousands of Haitian migrants are now being deported. What they decided to do was to,

in some cases, ship people back, put them on planes and fly them to Haiti.

In other cases, you know, put them on buses. Some were taken into custody. Some were released

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