“Immigrant-rights advocates are calling on the Biden administration to immediately suspend all deportation flights to Haiti, citing the inconsistencies in its policies and the deteriorating security situation in the gang-ridden Caribbean nation.
Immigrants’ rights organizations from across the country have sent a letter to the administration asking for the deportation flights to stop and decrying the administration’s refusal to implement a November 2022 call by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to ‘suspend the forced return of Haitians to their country.’
‘We believe that silence is not enough, and at this time the government must take a stand,’ said Shalyn Fluharty, executive director of the Americans for Immigrant Justice.”