Haitian residents in Brooklyn have begun efforts to provide assistance to their fellow Haitians after images surfaced showing people seeking refuge at the U.S. border as they feared for their safety back home.

Border agents were filmed greeting Haitians at the U.S.-Mexican border apparently using aggressive force to deter them away. More than 10,000 gathered in Del Rio, Texas, seeking asylum. Locals in Flatbush feels those refugees need to be given shelter and not turned away. Rev. Dr. Samuel Nicolas told News 12 he is heading down to the border next Thursday to provide help first-hand.

“It is wrong,” said Nicolas, president of the Haitian Clergy Association. “It is wrong."

Some of those Haitian refugees were seen traveling were in waste-deep water, carrying small children on their shoulder.

Jackson Rockingster, president and CEO at Habnet Chamber of Commerce said he found the pictures “horrific."

“It’s difficult to see and being of Haitian ancestry, hearing it seeing it, being there is another feeling,” Rockingster also said.

President Joe Biden was too taken aback by the images of what is taking place, and sees them as a black eye.

“It's dangerous,” he said. “It's wrong. It sends the wrong message around the world, and at home. It is simply not who we are.”

"This crisis needs to inverted,” Nicolas added. “It's been a week, you are in action Mr. President, and your no action is killing the Haitian community. We are slowly dying in front of your eyes. President Biden we are slowly dying in front of your eyes, have some compassion, have some humanity.”

Little Haiti Brooklyn has already begun its efforts to help out. Organizers say this group is taking a lead on relief efforts to help Haitians seeking asylum at the border. Organizers say what they most need are monetary donations that can be dropped off.