haiti daniel foote leaving his post in protest telling the secretary of state antony blinken wednesday he will, quote, not be associated with the united states inhuman, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of haitian refugees from the u.s./mexico border. it comes as chaos intensifies. migrants arriving in droves from encampments at the u.s. border with mexico were deported en masse back to haiti by the american government. many longed for a better life in the u.s. desperate to escape devastating poverty, political unrest, and escalating gang violence in the haitian capital. the former u.s. envoy describing the situation as so dangerous that american officials in haiti are confined to compounds. but these haitian citizens have nowhere to hide, forced to return to their homeland they were trying so hard to escape.
there are thousands of haitians remaining. i can show you why. if you come up here this way up the embankment from the river we talk a lot about governor abbott in texas his wall of steel, all the troopers and border patrol kind of preventing people from coming in. this is a mini mexican version of that. you got municipal police. you ve got immigration police. you ve got state police. if you look over here there are some relatively more armed police officers here. more or less. basically what happened, jake, is when they initially started this chain of people to come and try and stop migrants from coming in basically you had six or seven immigration agents. they came here and prevented people from the mexican side here from going across. a couple people came up. said why can t we cross. initially word spread very quickly through the camp. then came dozens of migrants some of whom had come here simply to charge their phones quite literally and said we don t want to stay in mexico and go
border but 3600 remain under the del rio international bridge right now. as the biden administration struggles to try to get a handle on the situation thousands of migrants are currently left in something of a limbo situation. let s bring in cnn s matt rivers live from the border. at one point law enforcement in mexico formed a human chain trying to stop migrants from making the trip across the river. what are you seeing now? yes. basically they succeeded in doing that, jake. what we ve seen over the past couple days here are people from that encampment on the u.s. side coming across pretty freely from the u.s. to mexico to get supplies. easier to get that in mexico. less people. less chaotic. food, water easier to get. bathrooms easier. we ve seen people come here for diapers. that stopped this afternoon. that group of migrants on the other side are some of the last people that were actually able to make it across into the u.s. and will eventually make their way to the encampment wh
we want to go back to the united states. they quickly overwhelmed the six or seven agents here which is how we saw the more chaotic scenes around the one or two p.m. local hour here. a few dozen haitian immigrants were able to make it across but now more enforcement again with the vehicles here. we ve seen several haitian migrants come here recently arguing with the police saying please let us through. one man said i have a child on the other side. they are not letting anybody through right now. if you are a haitian migrant in mexico right now even if your family is on the other side of the border and you just came to charge your phone you re stuck. you ll go through immigration proceedings here and maybe get deported back to haiti from mexico instead of the united states. matt rivers in mexico for us. thank you so much for great reporting. turning to haiti president biden s own envoy to haiti quit in disgust with the biden administration handling of haitian migrants on the u.s./mexi
i mean, they are as of right now. a lot of them. it seems to me. hopefully one thing that doesn t matter what happened with the haitians down in the south i m hearing from progressives they are very concerned. african-americans are feeling like none of the rest of this matters. we are about to cover that. thanks so much. some migrants are being sent back to haiti and some let into the united states. what is going on at the border? we ll go live on the ground in mexico and in haiti next. plus do you qualify for a third covid shot? a cdc panel just voted to approve booster shots for some americans but not for everyone. stay with us.