Final Deportation Flight Heads to Haiti Before Biden’s Inauguration
Biden promised to halt the deportations of undocumented immigrants from Haiti who have been living and working in the U.S.
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The Trump administration sent its last deportation to Haiti the night before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The ICE deportation flight took off from Alexandria, Louisiana at 10 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive at 1 p.m. in Port-au-Prince. One person, Paul Pierrilus, was removed from the flight list last minute because he never lived in Haiti, according to immigration advocate Guerline Jozef. Pierrilus Has been fighting deportation attempts for 15 years. Biden promised to halt the deportations of undocumented immigrants from Haiti who have been living and working in the U.S. while he review’s President Donald Trump’s immigration pol
telling buzzfeed an i.c.e. detainee had a 4,000 fold greater risk of getting mumps than non-detainee in the united states at large. julia ainslie joins me now with more. what do we know about this and what s the response been? this is a startling response from the centers of disease control that sent 900 immigrants have had mumps. we have known there was an outbreak. i.c.e. officials said they have had to quarantine. from november of last year to august 22nd of this year, 900 cases. we re not just talking about the border. there are i.c.e. facilities around the country. one outbreak was in new york. they re all over the country. to think this is just a border problem would be wrong. this is something happening in a lot of places. one of the reasons, if you speak to people, first of all, a lot
buzzfeed that based on cdc s data, an i.c.e. detainee had roughly at least a 4,000-fold greater risk of getting mumps than a non-detainee a in the united states at large. this comes after months of reports of crowded and unsanitary detentions for detainees and as a new front is opening in the immigration fight. activists are sounding an urgent alarm over a new trump policy to deport severely ill migrants. not from detention centers, but people who are here for critically needed medical attention. and today, dozens of democratic lawmakers sent a letter to top trump administration officials about this new policy, asking them to turn over documents within two weeks. so here s the question. why these patients. many of them children are being targeted, despite trump having claimed his real immigration concern was the quote, invasion from criminals and gangs. this is an invasion. when you see these caravans starting out with 20,000 people,
but apparently for 12 of them it isn t. i want to add one more thing. on the detainer, the detainer thing, just so you know, this isn t the first time. santa clara county has not honored an i.c.e. detainee in over seven years. this isn t the first. xhalgs walk out of that jail every day. laura: we ve had people of every race and every ethnicity murdered in the state of california. and brutalized and raped and children abused because of this sanctuary city status. county-to-county. the detainees were out in l.a. three times and in san jose san claire are nine times. couldn t get him held. monique, blame shifting to i.c.e. i find disturbing. here s a headline from mercury news. county officials say i.c.e., not their policy, blamed for
isn t. i want to add one more thing. on the detainer, the detainer thing, just so you know, this isn t the first time. santa clara county has not honored an i.c.e. detainee in over seven years. this isn t the first. xhalgs walk out of that jail every day. laura: we ve had people of every race and every ethnicity murdered in the state of california. and brutalized and raped and children abused because of this sanctuary city status. county-to-county. the detainees were out in l.a. three times and in san jose san claire are nine times. couldn t get him held. monique, blame shifting to i.c.e. i find disturbing. here s a headline from mercury news. county officials say i.c.e., not their policy, blamed for