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>> reporter: normally this street would be packed with traffic, with a lot of life, and it's a lot calmer than it normally is because many people have chosen to stay home today. schools are closed, businesses, many of them are closed. different types of transportation methods in the city have stopped. it is a form of protest from ordinary haitians who are basically saying, enough, that these levels of violence, the level of threats from these kidnappings, they're simply too high. they are unsustainable to live a peaceful life. they are demanding action from their government and this protest is...

Responsible for carrying out this kidnapping. and that gang and others are responsible for terrorizing ordinary haitians. remember it's ordinary haitians, haitian citizens that make up the vast number of kidnapping victims. it's not foreign nationals. it's also gang violence that's made life so difficult in the capital city of port-au-prince and surrounding areas. normally this street would be packed with traffic, with a lot of life, and it's a lot calmer than normal because many have chosen to stay home. schools are closed. businesses. different types of transportation methods in the city hav...

With no covid testing. unless they show symptoms. how is that helping anybody stop the spread? >> again, we have a protocol and process in police as it relates to covid in terms of testing and quarantining. and also vaccines are provided for a range of migrants by our partner organizations in the region. what is happening now is that as i outlined yesterday, is that if individuals cannot be expelled under title 42, they are placed in removal proceedings, as you referred to, that may -- that may require them being placed in ice detainment facilities or it may require being -- them being given a...