1/ Chaos unfolds as newly deported despairing migrants storms back into the airport in Port-au-Prince. Flight crew rushed to lock the doors. Shoes were thrown at the aircraft in desperation.
2/ More chaos and no coordination by Haitian authorities when personal belongings are being dumped on the airstrip.
3/ What’s left on the ground here used to be someone’s personal belongings. “I’ve lost my passport”, says a man that passes by.
Homeland Security did not take their time to fill out these bits of information on the plastic bags with personal items before expelling the Haitian migrants on flights from Harlingen, TX, this morning. 
Our story out on @vgnett here: vg.no/i/Jxl9mm
6/ What we saw was migrants in the hundreds. They were brought to the IOM-tents by buses. Single men, single women and families separate. Volatile situation. I and @TNilssonNYC interviewed a handful and all had been living years in Chile or Brazil before making the trek north.
7/ The cost of taking journey matches reporting we've done earlier on migrants travelling from the northern triangle: 5000-6000 USD. One woman was at a breaking point realizing she had sold all she had to harvest the money. Now she was in Haiti, a country she left five years ago.
Also, yes, the migrants we spoke to said they thought they were taken "somewhere else", a different "jail", but was devastated when they came to the airport in Harlingen and understood they were being deported.
Lastly @TNilssonNYC's strong photos from the airport of Port-au-Prince today can be found here: instagram.com/p/CUHA3WSsSDh/…
Note: There was a small sticker in the right top end with a name for a probable owner. But all this other blank fields speaks of lack of process.
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