The
migrants are encouraged to return to the border with Guatemala and request
asylum there after the US took the "deeply flawed" decision to deport
planes full of people back to the poor and violence-ravaged Caribbean nation.
Authorities
in Mexico are urging Haitians at the Texas border trying to reach the United
States to give up.
They
encouraged them to instead return to Mexico's border with Guatemala and request
asylum there.
Up
to 14,000 people, mostly Haitians, have been camped north of the Rio Grande River
this month, though hundreds have turned back to Mexico after the US began
deporting planes full of people back to Haiti.
The
Caribbean nation is reeling from the assassination of its president, natural
disasters, the coronavirus pandemic and gang violence.
It
follows outrage at images of a US border guard on horseback brandishing a whip
against Haitian migrants near their camp.
Pressure
is growing on US President Joe Biden after the US special envoy to Haiti
resigned in protest at his administration's deportations.
Mr
Biden's administration has used a policy enacted by Donald Trump's
administration in March 2020 to restrict immigration in an attempt to prevent
the spread of coronavirus.
Last
week a federal judge ruled the restriction was improper and gave the government
two weeks to cease, but Mr Biden's administration has appealed.
Daniel
Foote, the US special envoy to Haiti, said he was resigning over the
"inhumane" expulsions of Haitian migrants.
In
his letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he said he was stepping
down immediately "with deep disappointment and apologies to those seeking
crucial changes."
"I
will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive
decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to
Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds
because of the danger posed by armed gangs to daily life," he wrote.
"Our
policy approach to Haiti remains deeply flawed, and my policy recommendations
have been ignored and dismissed, when not edited to project a narrative
different from my own."
So
far nearly 2,000 migrants have been returned to Haiti, while almost 4,000
people have been taken into custody, the Department of Homeland security (DHS)
said on Thursday.
Some
3,000 people remain in the camp in the Del Rio area of Texas, opposite Ciudad
Acuna, the DHS added.
Some
Haitians will be allowed to remain in the US temporarily while they seek asylum
or under another claim of residency.
By Sky news
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