The United States government repatriated 435 Haitian migrants from Texas via three flights that landed in Port-au-Prince on Sunday, according to Haiti’s National Office of Migrants (OMN). The landings were the first of daily flights that the U.S. says it will send to Haiti as it attempts to clear more than 12,000 Haitian migrants who have been living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
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Haiti’s government has extended the state of emergency first declared Aug. 14 in the South for another 30 days as the earthquake-impacted region continues to recover. The measure appeared Sept. 15, by decree, in Haiti’s official government publication, Le Moniteur.
A judge in charge of the murder case of Monferrier Dorval, the eminent constitutional scholar assassinated in August 2020, has resigned. Local press said Judge Rénord Régis sent his Sept. 15 resignation letter to Haiti’s Superior Council of the Judicial Power, saying he was deeply disappointed in the judicial system.
The Mu and Delta variants of the coronavirus have been detected in Haiti, officials with the Ministry of Public Health of the Population, known in its French acronym as MSPP, have told Le Nouvelliste. Unvaccinated people are the most exposed to these new strains, Minister Marie Greta Roy-Clément said last week.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is now leading the overall coordination of the recovery assessment on behalf of Haiti’s government, the group said via a news release last week. UNDP will manage a variety of recovery activities, including assessments of housing, disaster risk reduction, governance, gender, environment and overall human impact as part of the Haiti Post-Disaster Needs Assessment, or PDNA, launched Aug. 31.
Haitian-Americans are worried about the increased frequency of their compatriots attempting to seek refuge in the U.S. recently. It’s a testament to how horrid the living conditions are in Haiti, they said.
The Biden administration worked Saturday on plans to send many of the thousands of Haitian immigrants who have gathered in a Texas border city back to their Caribbean homeland, in a swift response to the huge influx of people who suddenly crossed the border from Mexico and congregated under and around a bridge.
Some left to find work. Others to escape violence or racial discrimination in other countries. But many believe ‘there is nothing to go back to.’
The office of Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry has issued its first public statement about evidence authorities say they have of phone calls between him and a key suspect in the presidential assassination, saying he received countless calls from people concerned for his safety.
Thousands of Haitian migrants who have crossed the Rio Grande in recent days are sleeping outdoors under a border bridge in South Texas, creating a humanitarian emergency and a logistical challenge U.S. agents describe as unprecedented.