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Updated September 24th, 2021 at 11:50 IST

Blinken, Latin American diplomats meet in New York

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with diplomats from Mexico and Central America as thousands of Haitian immigrants continued to camp on the Texas border, casting a bright spotlight on U.S. immigration policy.

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with diplomats from Mexico and Central America as thousands of Haitian immigrants continued to camp on the Texas border, casting a bright spotlight on U.S. immigration policy.

After reaching a peak of approximately 15,000 over the weekend, approximately 4,000 remained at a dramatically diminished Texas border encampment between Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.

The United States and Mexico appeared eager to end the increasingly politicized humanitarian situation that prompted the resignation of the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote.

DHS officials said about 1,400 migrants had been sent to Haiti on 13 flights, rapidly expelled under the pandemic public health authority known as Title 42.

Another 3,200 were in U.S. custody and being processed, while several thousand have returned to Mexico, DHS officials said.

Officials said Thursday that the U.S. State Department also is in talks with Brazil and Chile to allow some Haitians who previously resided in those countries to return, but the issue is complicated because some no longer have legal status there.

 

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Published September 24th, 2021 at 11:50 IST

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