Deportations making Haiti crisis worse, says former US envoy
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‘Haiti is too dangerous’ to repatriate migrants seeking protection in the US, Daniel Foote tells legislators.
The former US envoy for Haiti, who resigned last month in protest of the Biden administration’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants, has warned that sending people back to Haiti will worsen conditions in the crisis-hit Caribbean nation.
At a congressional briefing on Thursday, Daniel Foote said deporting Haitian asylum seekers is “not the answer” to a recent increase in arrivals at the US’s southern border with Mexico.
“Haiti is too dangerous,” Foote told US lawmakers. “Our own diplomats cannot leave our compound in Port-au-Prince without armed guards.”
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