Mexico sends 70 Haitian migrants back home by plane

Mexico's government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a "voluntary return" flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian migrants https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-camp-cleared-haitians-thousands-more-move-2021-09-25 from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas. Mexico's interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that the "first group" of migrants - including 13 children - were flown to Port-au-Prince as part of an agreement between Mexican and Haitian authorities to manage a jump in Haitian migrants moving through Mexico to the U.S. border.

Mexico's government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a "voluntary return" flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian migrants https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-camp-cleared-haitians-thousands-more-move-2021-09-25 from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas.

Mexico's interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that the "first group" of migrants - including 13 children - were flown to Port-au-Prince as part of an agreement between Mexican and Haitian authorities to manage a jump in Haitian migrants moving through Mexico to the U.S. border. Nearly 30,000 migrants were encountered over a two-week period this month in Del Rio, where they had lived in a sprawling, makeshift encampment.

The United States sent some of those people back to Haiti, sparking criticism about returning them to a politically unstable country beset by violence and natural disasters. An estimated 8,000 migrants returned to Mexico, where officials have urged them to follow-through with asylum applications in southern Mexico https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mexico-urges-haitians-us-mexico-border-give-up-head-south-2021-09-24.

The 70 migrants on Wednesday's flight had been in Mexico City and the states of Hidalgo, Tabasco and the State of Mexico, the government statement said.