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By: EFE
Thursday, October 3
Senate Democratic leader asks Biden to stop deportation of Haitians
The leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, lashed out at the president on Tuesday Joe Biden for ordering the massive deportation of Haitian immigrants held on the border with Mexico and called for an end to policies that promote “hatred and xenophobia.”
“I urge President Biden and Secretary (of Homeland Security) Mayorkas to to immediately end these expulsions and the Title policy 42 on the southern border, ”said Schumer during a speech in the plenary session of the Senate.
The senator referred to a policy protected in the pandemic and known as Title 42 by which The United States automatically deported a large proportion of undocumented immigrants arriving at the border their r, without giving them the opportunity to apply for asylum.
“We cannot continue with these policies full of hatred and xenophobia, Trump’s own , which disregard our refugee laws, ”the senator claimed.
The horrible treatment of these innocent Haitian people — who have come to the border fleeing violence and natural disaster — must stop immediately.
The Admin must stop these expulsions and end this Title 42 policy at our southern border.
– Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 20, 2021
Schumer, from the same party as President Biden, said he had information that there are four flights scheduled to deport these migrants and complained that they will be sent “ to a country that cannot receive them “.
“Such a decision defies common sense. And also defies decency “, pointed out.
Haiti , considered the poorest country in America, is facing a deep political and social crisis that has been exacerbated in recent months by the earthquake of the past 15 August, which caused more than 2, 200 dead and substantial material losses, and the assassination, on July 7, of the president of that nation, Jovenel Moïse.
On Monday, 233 Haitians, including 45 children and 54 women, arrived in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, deported from the United States, which has already sent 560 migrants back to the Caribbean country.
L The Biden Administration opted for expulsions massive after in the last days more than 13, 000 migrants, mostly Haitians, will arrive in the town of Del Río,
- Texas , after crossing the Rio Grande , which marks the border between Mexico and the United States.
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