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August 14th earthquake, straining any capacity to receive returning haitians. conditions in haiti continue to be dire and not conducive to forced returns, end quote. my colleague has been covering the situation in haiti. yesterday he flew to the united nations in a remote southern part of the country affected by the earthquake. he joins us now live from the capital. jacob, what is the situation there? >> reporter: well, exactly as the un said it, ali. it is dire. so we have been here for most of the last week. we saw those migrants returning at the airport to confusion and dismay. we went with...

And active credible and lethal terrorist threat and that also in your testimony, you offered input to the state department that although mindful of concerns moving too soon would actually cause collapse of the afghan government that we all wanted to avoid, but moving too late would put people and operation at greater risk. what i'm trying to figure out is, despite the president's decision to order withdrawal on april 14th and troop presence, withdrawal began, by may and june of 2021, taliban captured quarter of the country. june 11th, neo table top done, on the 6th taliban captured first capit...

Of the department of homeland security in a press conference on friday, isa, basically say the united states government in making the decision to deport the people made the determination haiti has the capacity to accept all of these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that it is deporting back to haiti. that struck us because my team and i spent weeks reporting in haiti in july, august first after the presidential assassination on july 7th and after an earthquake that struck there on august 14th. to us this does not appear to be a country that is ready for an influx of people who have...

The people that stayed here thought they had a better chance of not being deported back to haiti. that fear for all migrants really that made their way here to the u.s./mexico border, many times after a journey of multiple months, scared of being deported back to haiti. it was on friday, it struck our team when we heard the secretary of the department of homeland security alejandro mayorkas say the u.s. government, when making the decision to deport these haitians back to a country many of them had never been to for years, they said that the u.s. -- he said the u.s. government made the determi...

And jacqueline charles, a caribbean correspondent for the miami herald. jackie, i want to start with you because i want you to paint the picture of what's happening in haiti that's causing people to flee. because when i see the footage of what's happening in the country there it's unimaginable and it looks uninhabitable. >> we have to remember haiti was struck by an earthquake in 2010 that killed over 100,000 people. and since then the promise of building back better has not been realized. take for example the u.s. government to rebuild the country's largest hospital. 11 years hospital that ho...