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First deportees arrive in Haiti after U.S. ends TPS protection: "They just sent me here"
CBS ^ | 8/21/26

Posted on 08/21/2026 1:40:01 PM PDT by CFW

The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti on Thursday for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians.

The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous. The U.S. government currently has a ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti's capital through early September because of ongoing gang violence.

The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces out of safety as journalists filmed their arrival. Nearly all declined to talk, with some fearing being targeted by gangs that control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and swaths of land beyond.

The deportees included TPS holders and Haitians who had served prison sentences, said Jean Négot Bonheur Delva, director general of Haiti's National Office of Migration.

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One deportee briefly spoke to The Associated Press as he arrived in Cap-Haitien. He identified himself as Jean Diane Louis and said he left Haiti when he was 5 years old. He said his family lives in New York City and that he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for an unspecified crime he asserted he did not commit.

"Then ICE came and took me without questioning me," Louis said. "They just sent me here."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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I'll admit that I never thought we'd see this day. I hope they continue deporting the Haitians, and add on the Somalians, Nigerians, Hondurans, Venezuelans, etc etc etc.
1 posted on 08/21/2026 1:40:01 PM PDT by CFW
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I never thought we'd see this day.

I wish we can have an American culture again.

2 posted on 08/21/2026 1:42:53 PM PDT by zeebee
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I never thought we'd see this day.

I wish we can have an American culture again.

3 posted on 08/21/2026 1:43:29 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: CFW

Their first question: “Where do I sign up for Welfare?”


4 posted on 08/21/2026 1:44:22 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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Im waiting for all 350,000 of them to be returned.


5 posted on 08/21/2026 1:44:52 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: AppyPappy

In Haiti?


6 posted on 08/21/2026 1:45:33 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

They had it here!!


7 posted on 08/21/2026 1:47:00 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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What’s the problem? We were told in 2018 that Haiti definitely was not a s*#thole.


8 posted on 08/21/2026 1:53:06 PM PDT by Kudsman (4728)
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To: zeebee

I wish we can have an American culture again.

only 20mil to go - almost there!


9 posted on 08/21/2026 1:59:20 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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160? That’s it?

All convicted of very serious crimes in the U.S.

That’s it?


10 posted on 08/21/2026 2:00:24 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: zeebee

The white folks need to be getting busy in the bedroom!


11 posted on 08/21/2026 2:00:35 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: CFW

They should now use all they learned in America
and help Make Haiti Great Again!


12 posted on 08/21/2026 2:07:38 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Do they take their pets with them?


13 posted on 08/21/2026 2:09:04 PM PDT by ansel12
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160? That’s it?

All convicted of very serious crimes in the U.S.

That’s it?


From what I understand that was just the first flight. More are in the works.


14 posted on 08/21/2026 2:09:08 PM PDT by CFW
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Awesome! This is the feel-good story of the week. The first flight of MANY MANY MORE deportation flights to Haiti I hope.

Gotta love all the boo hoo hooing by See BS.

"Haiti is not ready to receive so many"

Yeah? Neither were we.

"Their dreams are being broken" *sniffle*

Ours are being restored.

"Haiti is hell. Haiti is dangerous."

Nonsense! You lefties assured me over and over again that Haiti is not a s-hole country. OK. Then they can take their trash back.

"They don't want to go back to Haiti"

Tough. We don't want them here.

"It will be a nightmare for us"

The invasion of our country by you has been a nightmare for us.

15 posted on 08/21/2026 2:14:53 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: AppyPappy

Send ‘em to the Clintoon Foundation


16 posted on 08/21/2026 2:16:22 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: ansel12

Call it Reverse Chain Migration so their entire family can go back to Haiti with them.


17 posted on 08/21/2026 2:18:06 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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I hope they continue deporting the Haitians, and add on the Somalians, Nigerians, Hondurans, Venezuelans, etc etc etc.

For their happy reunifications with their homelands!

18 posted on 08/21/2026 2:24:25 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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“”””Send ‘em to the Clintoon Foundation”””””

Was just going to say the same thing. lol


19 posted on 08/21/2026 2:24:26 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: Macoozie

I think you mean make haiti great for the 1st time. It’s always been a shithole


20 posted on 08/21/2026 2:26:16 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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