Haitian migrants fear deportation

Ciudad Acuna – Deportation fears mounted on Thursday among Haitian migrants camped out in northern Mexico near the border with the United States following the sudden arrival of dozens of police officers at the site.

“Are they going to deport us or kick us out of here?” asked one of the hundreds of migrants waiting to see what would happen.

About 50 police vehicles arrived early on Thursday in the vicinity of a park in Ciudad Acuna where migrants have been staying for about a week, triggering alarm.

“I have nothing in my country. What am I going to do?” said a Haitian woman who gave her name as Sonia.

The deployment came after Mexican migration authorities said the foreigners should return to wherever in the country they submitted their asylum applications to finish the process. –