This week the US repatriated 52 Haitian migrants, sending them back to an impoverished dysfunctional country beset by anarchy and violence. The deportees landed at the airport in the city of Cap-Haitien on the north coast of Haiti. A DHS spokesperson said that "US policy is to return non-citizens who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the US."
Last month, nearly 500 human rights organizations published a letter to US officials including President Joe Biden, requesting a moratorium on deportations to Haiti.
"Today, in the absence of a functioning state, armed groups terrorize the population with systematic rape, indiscriminate kidnapping, and mass killing, all with impunity," the letter said.
A $674 million UN humanitarian appeal to help Haiti is only seven per cent funded. Canada deployed 70 personnel to train CARICOM soldiers in Jamaica for a UN-backed military force which Kenya will lead once they deploy. Thirty years ago the LA Times argued that the US “Monroe Doctrine”, and the follow-up “Roosevelt Corollary”, had probably failed Haiti. And that editorial was written thirty years ago.
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