US repatriates Texas border migrants

The United States has started flying migrants out of a Texas border town.

The border has seen an influx of mostly Haitian migrants over the past week.

Three flights landed at Haiti’s Port-Au-Prince airport on Sunday, each carrying 145 people,

Border patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said 3,300 migrants had been moved from the camp to planes or detention centres.

He said the US was working with the migrants’ home nations or countries they had travelled through, to get them to accept their return.