Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del Rio, Texas.
A year ago this month, nearly 15,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, set up encampments underneath an international bridge connecting the southern Texas town of Del Rio and the Mexican city of Ciudad Acuña. The convergence of the migrants attracted world-wide attention and raised questions about the Biden administration’s immigration policies as it responded by ramping up expulsions to Haiti.
Data by the United Nations International Organization for Migration show that since Sept. 19, 2021, more than 20,000 Haitian asylum seekers have been expelled to Haiti on more than 200 charter flights from the U.S. under the Trump-era public health law known as Title 42.
