A shadowy charter business springs up, charging big prices to US-expelled Haitians

The World

US deportations of Haitian migrants is way up: Nearly 4,000 in May alone. Many of those being sent home haven't actually lived in Haiti for years but in third countries like Chile and Brazil. Now, a shadow industry has sprung up. The Associated Press spent a month looking at the South American travel agencies that rent planes from low-budget Latin American airlines and then offer expensive charter flights to recently deported Haitians to return them to those South American countries. Carolyn Beeler speaks to an AP reporter about what they found out. 

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