Migrants' hopes dashed by surprise deportation to Haiti from U.S. border

FILE PHOTO: Haitian migrants board a plane for a voluntary repatriation flight from Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in this October 6, 2021 handout picture provided by Mexico's National Institute of Immigration (INM). National Institute of Immigration/Handout via REUTERS

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Haitian migrant Nikel Norassaint did not know where he was headed when Mexican migration officials put him on a flight last week in the southeastern city of Villahermosa, days after they had detained him near the U.S.-Mexico border.

The sea below was his only clue until the plane touched down in Port-au-Prince a few hours later, his first time in the country in five years.