Haitian migrants on the move weigh jobs in Mexico after clearout


  • World
  • Saturday, 25 Sep 2021

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S., who returned to Mexican side of the border to avoid deportation, arrive to a new space to take shelter which the National Institute of Immigration provided in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 24, 2021. REUTERS/Go Nakamura

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Many Haitians who are heading for the U.S. border as thousands of their compatriots were cleared out of a frontier camp are giving thought to finding work in Mexico if measures to curb entry to the United States stay tough.

On Friday, the United States said a border camp between the cities of Del Rio in Texas and Ciudad Acuna in Mexico had been emptied of thousands of migrants, most of them Haitian. Some were flown out, while others stay in the United States for now.

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