Angry scenes at Haiti airport as expelled migrants arrive

Angry scenes broke out at Haiti’s main airport after migrants were deported to the country from the US.

On Tuesday, migrants at the airport in Port-au-Prince rushed back towards the plane they had arrived on, while others threw shoes at the jet.

Last weekend, the US started flying out migrants from a Texas border town which has seen an influx in recent weeks.

About 13,000 would-be immigrants have gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas to Ciudad Acuña in Mexico.

Separately reports have emerged of thousands – mostly Haitians – stranded near the border between Colombia and Panama.

According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there were two separate incidents at the airport on Tuesday.

In a separate incident in Texas, a group of Haitians reportedly fought Border Patrol agents and attempted to escape after realizing they were being deported.

At the time, the migrants were being transported on a bus from the town of Brownsville to Del Rio.

“When the migrants found out they were going to be sent back to Haiti, they took the bus over and they fled,” Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, said at a news conference late on Tuesday.

The removal of migrants has been criticized by Partners In Health, an NGO that has been working in the country.

“During a challenging and dangerous period for Haiti, it is unthinkably cruel to send men, women and children back to what many of them do not even call ‘home’ anymore.”

About 4,000 people have either been deported or moved to other processing centers, according to DHS.

The migrants have been waiting in a makeshift camp in temperatures of 37C (99F).

Local officials have struggled to provide them with food and adequate sanitation.

Most of those at the camp are Haitians, but there are also Cubans, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans present.

Source: Agencies