U.S. to keep deporting Haitians despite urging its own citizens to evacuate – National | 24CA News
The United States will proceed deporting Haitian migrants again to their nation, a spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security mentioned on Thursday, amid worsening gang warfare that prompted it a day earlier to urge its personal residents to evacuate.
“Removals of Haitian nationals encountered at our southern border and repatriation of Haitian nationals encountered at sea continue,” the spokesperson mentioned, noting the Biden administration had expanded parole processes for Haitian migrants.
“Those interdicted at sea are subject to immediate repatriation, and those encountered in the United States without a legal basis to remain are subject to removal,” they mentioned.
The United Nations and human rights teams have referred to as on the United States and different international locations to cease this observe.
U.S. border authorities encountered greater than 125,000 Haitians between final October and July, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Early on Thursday, a flight carrying 66 Haitian migrants landed at Toussaint Louverture International Airport within the capital Port-au-Prince, in response to a Homeland Security doc seen by Reuters.
The similar morning, a small group, together with individuals who arrived in vehicles from the U.S. diplomatic mission, gathered on a runway of the identical airport to board a Boeing 767 airplane operated by U.S. constitution airline Omni Air International headed to the U.S.
“The humanitarian situation has considerably deteriorated in Haiti in 2023,” U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) mentioned in a press release on Thursday, estimating that over 2,500 have been killed and 970 kidnapped since January.
This contains at the very least 71 folks killed in a latest escalation over the past two weeks of August.
“The latest wave of violence has resulted in the forced displacement of over ten thousand people, who have taken refuge in more than twenty makeshift sites and host families,” it mentioned.
(Reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington, Ralph Tedy Erol in Port-au-Prince and Sarah Morland in Mexico City; Editing by Stephen Coates)
