Mexico Sends 70 Haitian Migrants Back Home by Plane

Haitian migrants board a plane as part of the "assisted voluntary return" to Haiti by Mexican authorities, at the Carlos Rovirosa Perez International airport, in Villahermosa, Mexico, on Sept. 29, 2021. Mexico's National Migration Institute/Reuters

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a “voluntary return” flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian illegal immigrants from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas.

Mexico’s interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that the “first group” of migrants— including 13 children—were flown to Port-au-Prince as part of an agreement between Mexican and Haitian authorities to manage a jump in Haitian migrants moving through Mexico to the U.S. border.