ICE Begins Deporting Haitians Who Lost Temporary Protections

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday carried out its first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration terminated deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians earlier this year.

The plane, which carried more than 160 people, arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien, The Associated Press reported. The U.S. has a ban in place on flights in and out of the country’s main airport in the capital city of Port-au-Prince due to ongoing gang violence.

The deportees on this flight included those previously covered under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a U.S. program that protects from deportation foreign nationals who cannot safely return to their home country and offers them a pathway to work authorization.

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