Fear and chaos await Haitian migrants forced back over border - BBC News

Undocumented Haitian immigrants are being deported from the Dominican Republic as unrest in Haiti grows.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Those being returned to Haiti face an uncertain futureBy Will GrantBBC News, on the Haiti-Dominican Republic borderAt the Dajabón border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a constant stream of trucks pulls up carrying undocumented Haitian migrants, who are being deported back to their home country.

They are being sent to a nation in the grip of its most acute humanitarian crisis since the devastating earthquake in 2010, which killed hundreds of thousands.

"I'd been in the Dominican Republic for three years," yelled construction worker, Michael Petiton, "they came into my house and took me from my home."

He worked hard, he insisted, doing a job most Dominicans did not want. Now he is back in Haiti with only the clothes on his back and a few tools he managed to salvage in a rucksack.

Image caption, Michael Petiton says he had been working in the Dominican RepublicHaiti's already precarious situation has quickly deteriorated over the past weeks as gangs have launched coordinated attacks on key facilities to force the resignation of the country's prime minister.

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