09/20/2021

U.S. Will Prioritize Single Adult Haitians, Some Families for Deportation from Texas

They have amassed in a Texas border town

The Biden administration will prioritize all single adult Haitians and some Haitian families for deportation, after more than 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants converged on a Texas border bridge, say two senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials.

Unaccompanied children and some families will be allowed to stay in the U.S. and given dates for asylum hearings, the senior DHS officials said. Thousands of others will be deported to Haiti, including families who do not claim asylum and all single adults.

Many have not seen Haiti since they fled to Latin American countries after the 2010 earthquake or other natural or political crises.

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