As deportation flight lands in Haiti, U.S. says two planeloads a week will start soon

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight landed at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16, 2026 at Cap-Haïtien’s international airport carrying 111 Haitian nationals who were deported from the United States. Some 32 were criminal records were imprisoned while one told authorities neither he nor his parents were born in Haiti. Gérard Maxineau For the Miami Herald

By Jacqueline Charles and Syra Oriz Blanes

Days before hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. are set to lose deportation protections, the Trump administration on Thursday flew more than 100 Haitian nationals back to the Caribbean country, signaling the start of what Haiti officials and immigration advocates expect to be a surge in removals beginning next week.

More than 300,000 Haitians in the U.S. will lose Temporary Protected Status on July 24, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation.

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