The Dominican Republic’s mass deportation plan, which calls for 10,000 Haitians to be expelled every week, comes amid deteriorating relations between the two countries.

The Dominican Republic says it has deported or repatriated nearly 11,000 Haitians in the past week. It's fulfilling a pledge to do so weekly as neighboring Haiti scrambles to handle the influx while besieged by poverty and gang violence.

Haiti's foreign minister on Monday blasted a policy announced last week by the neighboring Dominican Republic to deport tens of thousands of migrants back to Haiti, where gang violence is fueling a devastating humanitarian crisis.