The Biden administration expelled nearly 4,000 Haitians on 36 deportation flights in May — a significant increase over the previous three months — after renegotiating agreements with the island nation.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration expelled nearly 4,000 Haitians on 36 deportation flights in May — a significant increase over the previous three months — after renegotiating agreements with the island nation, which has been crippled by gang violence and an expanding humanitarian crisis.
But the U.S. government also cannot send as many removal flights as it would like to countries with which it has strong diplomatic ties. “We do not have a government in Haiti that can make those decisions,” Guerline M. Jozef, president of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an advocacy organization, said of the number of expulsion flights the country could accept. Many Haitians do not recognize the current government in Port-au-Prince as legitimate.
In September, about 15,000 migrants, many of them Haitian, crossed the border into Del Rio, Texas, over the course of a few days. That month, the United States sent a record 58 expulsion flights to Haiti, according to data collected by the International Organization for Migration, which tracks the flights.
“It’s counterproductive to a stable Haiti, which is critical to stop them from migrating in the first place,” Foote said, referring to Haitian migrants. “I don’t have another plan except to go to the U.S. — go there and work,” Carlos Montius, 35, said last month. Montius, a Haitian from Port-au-Prince, said he had been staying in Reynosa, Mexico, for the better part of a year.The Biden administration has taken steps to address the instability in Haiti, although some say it is far from enough.
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