PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- More than 100 Haitians are awaiting a final decision about their future after they reached the Florida shore at Hallandale Beach on Wednesday.

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NBC 6's cameras were rolling Thursday morning as nearly a dozen Haitian refugees were loaded into a Department of Homeland Security van and taken to area detention centers.

The exclusive video shows seven women and four men leaving the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol office in Pembroke Pines just after 10 a.m. Thursday.

"They're in shock, but physically in good condition," said Haitian Consul General Ralph Latortue.

Other Haitian refugees were still being processed at the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol office in Pembroke Pines.

That's where community activitists gathered on Wednesday night, demanding equal treatment for Haitians.

"We're trying to process the women and children first so we can get them out of here sooner than later," a customs official said.

Based on the U.S. wet-foot, dry-foot policy, Cubans who reach U.S. soil are allowed to stay in the country, but that policy does not apply to Haitians.

"Everybody is feeling despair because we've come to pick up our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated here," said Lucie Tondreau, a Haitian advocate.

Amos Petitfrere arrived at the Border Patrol office on Thursday morning, hoping to see his brother and sister.

"I want my brother to stay in the United States. I'm his big brother. Please," Petitfrere said. "There's kidnapping, a lot of problems over there. People shoot people and people kill people."

"It's a policy that may be unfair, but unfortunately, this is a higher decision," Latortue said. "That's something that's going to be difficult to change."

Petitfrere said he saw his siblings on television in the dilapidated wooden sailboat along Hallandale Beach.

Nearly a dozen minors, including a 10-year-old boy were among the group that spent 22 days at sea trying to reach the U.S.

"We were drinking the water of the sea. I feel bad," said Wesley Davilmar, one of the rescued Haitians.

The Haitians arrived starving and dehydrated. One person died and 11 were taken to a local hospital.

"I'm a young man," Davilmar said. "I don't know how my life is going to be tomorrow. That's why I'm trying to look for a better life."

But Davilmar is likely to be deported along with the other Haitians.

"It's racist. What other reason is there?" said Marleine Bastien, executive director of Haitian Women of Miami. "When we look at Cuba and Haiti, we know that Haiti is 10 times worse. Yet, these people are placed in expedited removal proceedings."

Bastein said she is hoping lawmakers will make an exception to the wet-foot, dry-foot police.

Meanwhile, after processing at Border Patrol, the men will be taken to Krome Detention Center, the women to Pompano Beach Detention Center and the children will stay in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.