In Photos: US launches mass expulsion of Haitian migrants from Texas

In what could be one of America's large-scale and sudden expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades, the country is expelling thousands of migrants camped around a bridge in a Texas border town, Del Rio, after crossing from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. . (AP)

The US flew the Haitian migrants camped in the Texas border town back to their homeland and blocked others from crossing the border from Mexico. (AP)

Thousands of Haitian migrants, in a bid to escape poverty and hunger, have been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, to seek asylum in the US, even as authorities have begun to deport them back to Haiti. (AP)

The Joe Biden administration planned on “massive movements” of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border city on flights to Haiti representing a swift and dramatic response to thousands who suddenly assembled under and around a bridge. (AP)

US Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas. (AP)

Haitians who were deported from the United States arrive at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port au Prince, Haiti. (AP)

Haitians deported from the US, get their bags while arriving at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port au Prince, Haiti. (AP)

Haitians who were deported from the U.S. border with Mexico are attended by members of the UN's International Organisation of Migration before they get tested for Covid-19 at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)

Haitians deported from the US collect their bags while arriving at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port au Prince, Haiti. (AP)

A little girl with teary eyes is carried by a woman who was deported from the US border with Mexico at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)