Border Crisis: Thousands Of Haitians Flown to Haiti Against Their Will
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🗓️ 23 September 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Haitians who have been camped out at the southern US border are being flown to their home |
| 0:04.9 | country by the thousands. |
| 0:06.6 | A lot of people are telling us how they were mistreated, how they felt like they were |
| 0:13.2 | deceased by, you know, the US authorities. |
| 0:16.9 | With Lor Marrencourt is a journalist based in Porta Prince, who has been interviewing |
| 0:20.9 | migrants as they arrive in the capital city. |
| 0:23.3 | They did not know and nobody told them they were being flown back to Haiti. |
| 0:29.9 | The videos from Tuesday show some deported Haitians attempting to rush back onto a plane |
| 0:35.2 | that had just dropped them off. |
| 0:40.0 | US officials began these forced removals as an encampment under the International Bridge |
| 0:45.0 | in Del Rio, Texas grew to more than 14,000 people. |
| 0:49.6 | Most of the Haitians there had been living in other countries across Central and South |
| 0:53.0 | America. |
| 0:54.0 | A lot of these people left Haiti years ago, some of them left after the 2010 earthquake |
| 1:02.3 | and some of them do not have relatives near the city, near Porta Prince where, you |
| 1:08.8 | know, the US authorities bring them. |
| 1:10.9 | It's still not clear why thousands of Haitians chose to travel to the US-Mexico border |
| 1:15.4 | now, but Marrencourt says this is a particularly dangerous time to return to Haiti. |
| 1:20.9 | The president was recently assassinated, gangs dominate the capital, and the country is |
| 1:25.8 | still recovering from last month's devastating earthquake. |
| 1:33.9 | He says once they arrive they're given a little money, most said they got $25 US dollars. |
| 1:39.0 | Marrencourt says that's not even enough for a hotel room. |
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