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Haiti declared a state of emergency, and the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince issued an alert calling on U.S. citizens to leave immediately on commercial or private aircraft, even with the airport ...
“The bottom line is that the United States simply cannot tolerate anarchy on its doorstep.” For years, Haiti’s armed forces have been trying to enter the battle against gangs but had to ...
Flights at Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti’s capital have been disrupted for the second straight day by heavy gunfire nearby, as the Caribbean nation grapples with surging gang violence and ...
25 June – Kenyan police units arrive in Haiti for a United Nations-backed security mission to restore order. [21] 29 June – The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitian refugees in the United States until February 2026, offering the refugees deportation relief and work permits. [22]
After the airport in Cap-Haïtien reopened, the US resumed deportations to Haiti on 18 April after a three-month hiatus. [ 220 ] Immediately after the publication of the decree creating the Transitional Council on 12 April, President Biden authorized $60 million in aid to the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti using the ...
To counter a potential migration flow, the Biden administration in January 2023 included Haiti in a list of four countries whose nationals would be allowed to come to the United States legally as ...
A large contingent of U.S. troops (USFORHAITI) participated as peacekeepers in the UNMIH until 1996 (and the U.S. forces commander was also the commander of the U.N. forces). U.N. forces under various mission names were in Haiti from 1995 through 2000. Over the course of the operation one U.S. soldier, a special forces staff sergeant, was killed.
The West African nation of Benin is supposed to be a critical partner in the multinational security mission helping Haiti fight violent gangs — pledging the single-largest force of 1,500 to ...