First group of Haitians is deported from the US

In the first week of Trump's second term, officials reported the deporation of some 7,300 people of various nationalities.

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00:00The U.S. continues to carry out its major crackdown on migrant deportation since Donald

00:07Trump's return to the White House last month. In Haiti, the first group of deported migrants

00:13arrived back to the Caribbean nation on Tuesday, Mario Montes being one of them. He explains

00:19how he was caught after being in the U.S. for almost a year.

00:23My name is Mario Montes. I am from Haiti. I am a migrant. I have a job. I am here because

00:36the new president has to fill out a form. I am here because I have a job. I am here

00:44because I have a job. I am here because I have a job.

00:48Meanwhile, El Salvador has offered to take in U.S. deportees and house violent criminals,

00:54even American citizens, in its mega-jail, which can house up to 40,000 inmates at a

01:00time, according to official numbers, which have been disputed by rights groups.

01:06U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it the most unprecedented and extraordinary

01:12migration agreement anywhere in the world.

01:15Also on Tuesday, the first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo

01:21Bay landed in Cuba, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth.