Nearly four thousand hatian migrants have been expelled from the us. The deportees were forced to leave the united states without ever having the chance to seek asylum. It's something that they reassess every 60 days, and the next dead line for that is in early april.
The US southern border remains closed to asylum seekers on account of Covid-19, unless you happen to be Ukrainian.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Matt Collette and host Sean Rameswaram.
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