The US keeps deporting people to a country that it says is too dangerous for travel
By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN
Published 12:11 AM EDT, Wed September 6, 2023
The Biden administration has taken mixed positions on its policies involving Haiti – with one federal agency warning that the Caribbean country is too dangerous for US citizens, while another agency deports Haitians back to the violence-torn country.
Violence in Haiti during the second quarter of 2023 jumped almost 14% when compared to the previous quarter, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.
On August 30, the US Embassy in Haiti urged American citizens to leave the country due to the “current security situation.” The next day, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported an undisclosed number of individuals to Haiti.
With Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince largely controlled by gangs infamous for kidnapping and murder, experts warn that the deportations could amount to death sentences.
“This act puts lives in danger,” Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said in a statement. “We urgently call upon President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary Mayorkas, and the entire administration to cease all deportations to Haiti.”
More:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/06/americas/us-haiti-deportations-intl-latam/index.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
He was one of the powerful leaders of the killers who were outfitted and organized during George W. Bush next door in the Dominican Republic and used to sweep into Haiti and create a non-stop bloodbath, going after President Aristide, murdering Haitians left and right, leaving their bodies dead in the street where they were gunned down. You recall the US approached Aristide and offered to fly him out to South Africa, I believe, I'll have to check on that, effectively overthrowing him and replacing him with someone US business-friendly who supported US corporate sweatshops which paid workers next to NOTHING as they made clothes which sold at prices in the US that Haitians would never afford to buy, not ever.
When Haitians attempted to flee in boats to the US, pResident Bush surrounded the island with a US blockade to catch them and return them right to the country where they would be murdered. You may recall how the Miami Cuban "exile" community and relatives of Elián González fought like madmen to keep him in the US when his father, step-mother, two grandmothers, two grandfathers, host of other relatives, school mates and friends, and neighbors demanded his return. Meanwhile there was a tiny Haitian girl whose dying mother had brought her to try to give her to her sister to raise before she passed, who was referred to as the "Reverse Elian" and Florida tried to remove her to Haiti, where she would be alone, since her mother died in the US right after arriving.....
Guy Phillippe.
~ ~ ~
The Real Crimes of Guy Philippe
Selections from “Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti” - Part 2 of 3
Jeb Sprague -May 10, 201706727
Guy Philippe with FRAPH death-squad leader Louis Jodel Chamblain in 2004. “At one point, a Dominican journalist found that Chamblain... openly wore a Dominican security uniform with a Dominican Policia National insignia.”
Last week, we learned how a cabal of Haitian police chiefs, who had been trained in Ecuador (therefore known as the “Ecuadorians”), attempted to organize a preemptive coup in October 2000 to prevent former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s reelection in November 2000 and return to power in February 2001
Their plot discovered by Haitian authorities, the police chiefs fled to the Dominican Republic, where they began to set up the Front pour la Libération et la Reconstruction Nationale (FLRN), of which Guy Philippe became the leader. Its goal was to remove Aristide from office through a coup.
This week, we learn how Philippe connected with FRAPH death squad leader Louis Jodel Chamblain and former Haitian soldier Remissainthe Ravix to build the force, all with the connivance of Dominican authorities.
Kim Ives
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SHELTERS CONSPIRATORS
The Oct. 23, 2000, edition of the Dominican daily Listín Diario reported that the Haitian police chiefs “crossed the border with the assistance of members of the Dominican Armed Forces in Dajabón and Monte Cristi.” (35) In Dajabón, which was home to thousands of Haitian migrant workers, few were likely happy to see Philippe and his fellow military men, especially as paramilitaries had often been used to attack striking workers, or to intimidate and assassinate trade unionists. Late at night, local workers encircled the hotel that the ex-military men were staying in; some were intent on lynching the men inside.
In response to the furor, Dominican soldiers intervened and evacuated Dragon, Philippe, and the others by helicopter to Santo Domingo, where the Dominican military held them in protective custody.(36) They were questioned by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a hotbed staffed by anti-Aristide bureaucrats with career positions.(37)
Days after the ex-police officers’ arrests, Haitian foreign minister Fritz Longchamp traveled to the Dominican Republic to request their formal extradition. The Haitian president publicly and formally requested the surrender of the former police officers, and accused them of being involved in a planned coup d’état.(38) But Dominican authorities refused to hand over the coup plotters, claiming a right to grant them political asylum.(39)
Dominican officials quickly announced that the ex-police had been “given asylum in Ecuador,” a destination likely facilitated by U.S. officials who had helped train the Haitian military and were now operating an air base in the Ecuadorian port city of Manta.(40) But by early 2001, the ex-police officers were already back in the Dominican Republic with other former members of the FAd’H [Armed Forces of Haiti], such as former soldier Remissainthe Ravix, and getting tactical advice from the infamous [FRAPH] death squad leader Louis Jodel Chamblain.
More:
https://haitiliberte.com/the-real-crimes-of-guy-philippe-2/
(You may recall the incredible poster, EFerrari, a real Latin America expert, her grandfather having been a minister of defense many years ago in El Salvador, who posted here for years, while right-wing posters harrassed her endlessly. She finally moved on after refusing to back down, ever, always winning. She corresponded with the journalist Kim Ives, who's been involved in Haiti journalism for many years, and she corresponded with Berta Cáceres, the Honduran activist who was assassinated in 2016. She undoubtedly still keeps in touch with Kim Ives, whose name appears at the top of this article.)