US Senate leader urges Biden to end 'hateful' Haitian expulsions

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WASHINGTON: Democratic US Senate leader Chuck Schumer urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday (Sep 21) to end mass deportations of Haitian migrants, with the White House facing a firesto

over its buckling immigration system and the apparent abuse of refugees.

"I urge President Biden ... to immediately put a stop to these expulsions, and to end this Title 42 policy at our southern border," Schumer said on the Senate floor.Washington began sending planeloads full of Haitian nationals back to their crisis-wracked country, hit by a devastating recent earthquake and political turmoil, over the weekend.

Critics say the pictures evoked times when mounted police or prison guards routinely used whips against Black Americans, recalling 19th-century scenes of the violence of slavery. The deportation of Haitian migrants was temporarily suspended by Washington after a devastating earthquake hit the Caribbean nation last month.

More than 3,000 migrants have already been removed from a makeshift camp in Del Rio, to be transferred to detention centres or deported, Mayorkas said.

 

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