Crowd in Haiti chants "Joe Biden" amid hopes to claim asylum in U.S. after assassination of president

A Haitian-American who was arrested in the killing of Haiti's president had worked as a confidential informant to the Drug Enforcement Administration, CBS News has learned. During last week's attack at President Jovenel Moïse's home, gunmen could be heard announcing themselves as DEA agents, but the DEA says the gunmen were not acting on its behalf.

Tensions are rising in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince as the lack of leadership threatens to further destabilize an already unstable nation. Outside the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, there was a mad rush to immigrate to the U.S. and claim asylum. Chants of "Joe Biden" rang through a crowd of people, most of whom were holding their passports. Minouche Mistidor, a mother desperate to get her 14-year-old son to America, told CBS News' Mola Lenghi that her ex-husband was a police officer killed in Haiti in March.