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“I wouldn’t say it’s criminal, but what the United States is doing is at the very least inhumane.” needs to protect its borders, but the way Haiti is right now, this is the last place to send anyone. Chevry, a board member of the Haiti Center for Socio Economic Policy in Port-au-Prince. That it’s happening under President Biden, they said, made it sting even more.
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Some here describe the large-scale deportations back to Haiti as something they might have expected under President Donald Trump, who was dismissive of Haitian immigrants. The United Nations has sounded the alarm over a lack of resources to aid earthquake victims, including thousands of women and children left homeless, in the country’s devastated south.Ī Haitian prosecutor sought charges against the prime minister in the president’s assassination. The government to which the deportees are returning has teetered on the verge of collapse amid an internal power struggle and a judicial request to indict the sitting prime minister in connection to the slaying of President Jovenel Moïse. Violent street gangs have seized neighborhoods and key roads, torching homes and spreading a plague of rapes, kidnappings and killings that have caused thousands of residents to flee. Haiti suffered the still unsolved assassination of its president in July and a devastating earthquake that killed 2,200 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes, schools and churches in August. © Richard Pierrin/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A Haitian deportee waits at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. Since then, conditions in Haiti have deteriorated sharply - leading critics to describe the deportations now as contradictory. At the time, officials cited “serious security concerns, social unrest, an increase in human rights abuses, crippling poverty, and lack of basic resources” in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
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Recognition of the conditions led the Biden administration as recently as May to grant temporary protected status to tens of thousands of undocumented Haitians in the United States.
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They began landing Sunday in a nation that some describe as Somalia of the Caribbean - a failed state suffering a humanitarian emergency that critics say is too dangerous and unstable for the thousands being deported. I don’t even know this country anymore.”īiden administration to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti, aiming to deter mass migration into Texas “If Biden continues with these deportations, he’s no better than Trump,” Bordes said. Several families told The Washington Post that they were never told they were being deported back to Haiti. He mingled with other confused deportees, many of whom hadn’t seen Haiti in years and now spoke Spanish or Portuguese better than Haitian Creole. I don’t even know where we are going to sleep tonight.” “How could they bring us back here?” he asked. border - never imagining the road would lead back to the devastated country they left more than a decade ago. Encouraged by relatives in the United States, the family set out on a 4,500-mile trek to the U.S. He was 12 when they left, first for the Dominican Republic, then on to Chile, where he was living with his mother and brother when the coronavirus pandemic hit. Like many deportees arriving on charter flights at the airport in Port-au-Prince, 15 minutes from neighborhoods controlled by brutal armed gangs, Bordes’s family left Haiti in the great migration after the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. © Richard Pierrin/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Haitians deported from the United States disembark from a plane at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. Now part of the first wave of deportees rapidly ejected by the Biden administration amid a fresh surge at the border, Johnson Bordes, 23, stepped off a Boeing 737 on Sunday and into the Haitian capital, terrified by a city torn apart by violence in a homeland he could barely remember. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - He crossed the Mexican border into Texas only two weeks ago, joyous at the prospect of building anew in the United States. deportation of migrants to country in crisis Three shot as family fight over gifts at Pa. Widlore Merancourt, Anthony Faiola 13 hrs ago At the end "How could Biden do this to us?" lol)ĭeportees land in Port-au-Prince: ‘Nobody told us we were going back to Haiti’ There don't seem to be any happy or celebratory categories or I would have used one of them. (Posted in "INTL" because it's a neutral rather than negative or alarmed sort of category.