Haitian migrants 'being released in US on very large scale', officials say

The releases were occurring despite the signalling of a massive effort to expel the migrants on flights to Haiti under pandemic-related authority that denies them an opportunity to seek asylum

Migrants, many from Haiti, cross the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to return to Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. Picture: AP Photo/Fernando Llano

Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the US, officials have said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.

Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, according to one source who put the figure in the thousands.