The U.S. has flown more than 300 Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland, and tried blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico, in one of the largest expulsions of refugees in decades.
back to their homeland Sunday and tried blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signaled the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades.
The only obvious parallel for such an expulsion without an opportunity to seek asylum was in 1992 when the Coast Guard intercepted Haitian refugees at sea, said Yael Schacher, senior U.S. advocate at Refugees International whose doctoral studies focused on the history of U.S. asylum law.Similarly large numbers of Mexicans have been sent home during peak years of immigration but over land and not so suddenly.
As they crossed, some Haitians carried boxes on their heads filled with food. Some removed their pants before getting into the river and carried them. Others were unconcerned about getting wet.
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