A Deportation Plane Carrying 46 People Lands in Haiti From the United States

A plane carrying dozens of American deportees touched down in Haiti Tuesday after taking off from Miami. Twenty-five of the 46 passengers on the jet were convicted felons, according to a Haitian official source, when it landed in the country’s north, Cap-Haïtien.

The Trump administration protected roughly half a million Haitians from deportation, which meant they would lose their work permits and risk being taken out of the country. Many of the Haitians who were deported on Tuesday had entered the country illegally or were awaiting Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which gives people the legal right to stay in the nation but does not provide a permanent route to citizenship.

After living in Brazil since 2013, Makenson Estilice decided to travel to the United States in the hopes of gaining Temporary Protection Status under President Biden. “I went to Mexico before coming to the United States,” he stated. The decision to end TPS was made public in February and is a part of the Trump administration’s broader initiative to reduce the use of the Temporary Protected Status designation, which was greatly expanded to include approximately one million immigrants during the Biden administration, and to carry out campaign pledges to deport large numbers of people.

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