UN urges US to stop forced returns to Haiti after latest deportation flight
Al JazeeraHaitians may face ‘life threatening risks’ and further displacement if returned to Haiti, UN refugee agency says. The United Nations refugee agency has called on the United States to stop forcibly returning Haitians to their home country, which is facing a months-long surge in gang violence and continued political instability. In a social media post on Friday, UNHCR urged US President Joe Biden’s administration “to refrain from forcibly returning Haitians who may face life-threatening risks or further displacement” in the Caribbean nation. The call after the UN agency said “another US deportation flight landed in Haiti” on Thursday. Sunil Varghese, policy director at the International Refugee Assistance Project, also said the deportation flights put Haitians “back into grave danger”.