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Migrants slam ‘horror’ in US

MIGRANT families sent back to Haiti by the US after attempting to enter the country from Mexico are angry at their treatment and fearful of returning home to a life punctuated by gang violence.

The deportation of Haitian migrants had been temporarily suspended by Washington after a devastating earthquake hit the Caribbean nation last month.

But in recent days, more than 15 000 Haitians crossed into the country from Mexico and found themselves stranded for days in Texas under a bridge spanning the Rio Grande River, blocked from moving onwards.

Washington began sending back these migrants on Sunday, with three flights full of Haitian nationals landing in the capital Port-au-Prince from Texas hours earlier.

“(US President Joe) Biden knows well what is happening, but he doesn’t care,” said one tearful woman as she described her time at a US migrant detention facility in Texas.

“He treated us, us and our children, worse than animals,” she said.

Fellow returnee Garry Momplaisir, 26, said: “No one can explain the horror.”

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