Thread by @ajplus

The U.S. deported 300+ asylum seekers to Haiti and is planning 7 daily deportation flights starting Wednesday.

At least 3,000 people held at a bridge at Del Rio were moved to planes or detention facilities. One woman who was deported said: "We are on the streets with nothing!"

15,000 people from Haiti have been trapped at a bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days.

Many slept on the ground, with little access to food, water or toilets. Border Patrol blocked people bringing supplies from Mexico. People say they were treated "worse than animals."

"There's no safety in Haiti."

1 in 3 people in Haiti have no secure access to food, a month after an earthquake killed over 2,200 people.

People are also escaping political crisis, poverty and gang violence but have mostly been blocked from asylum using a Trump-era rule.

Pres. Biden promised a more humane approach to immigration, but is using a Trump-era rule to deport people without a chance for asylum.

Title 42 has been used to expel about 600,000 people in 2021. A judge blocked it, but it is in place for 2 more weeks and Biden is appealing.

Hundreds of Haitian asylum seekers turned back to Mexico, fearing the U.S. will deport them to Haiti.

Thousands are in a border camp in Del Rio without adequate food, water or shelter.

The U.S. plans to expel most without letting them claim their legal right to asylum.

The White House says footage of Border Patrol agents using whips on asylum seekers is "unacceptable."

Agents were seen attacking people who appeared to be bringing water and food to asylum seekers at a camp on the border — where the U.S. is denying most the right to asylum.

Thousands of Haitians are at the U.S. border fleeing political chaos and poverty — and the U.S. is deporting many without letting them claim asylum.

How did Haiti get to this point? Hint: the U.S. and France.