ICE sends deportation flight to Haiti after warning US citizens to evacuate
Source: The Hill
ICE sends deportation flight to Haiti after warning US citizens to evacuate
BY RAFAEL BERNAL - 08/31/23 11:09 AM ET
The Biden administration is conducting a deportation flight to Haiti on Thursday, a day after the State Department called on all U.S. citizens to leave the country immediately due to security concerns.
The scheduled deportation flight, the second to Haiti this month, left Alexandria, La., shortly before 8 a.m. EDT and is scheduled to land in Port-au-Prince shortly after 11 a.m.
“Those two cannot happen at the same time. You cannot be evacuating people and deporting people at the same time. That is beyond inhumane. It is definitely a violation against human rights,” said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance.
According to unconfirmed reports Wednesday, the flight was scheduled to depart with more than 60 Haitians on board.
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