Lawmakers urge halt to deportation of Black immigrants
Maria Sacchetti and Arelis R. Hernández, The Washington Post
Feb. 12, 2021
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Demonstrators gather at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, to protest the recent deportations of Black immigrants, including those from Haiti and countries in Africa.Washington Post photo by Jahi Chikwendiu
WASHINGTON - Prominent Black lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to stop expelling migrants to nations such as Haiti that are engulfed in political turmoil, fearing that they could be harmed or killed.
Hundreds of immigrants have been swept out of the United States in recent days, a blow to groups that had been counting on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants and the first Black vice president, to halt deportations and overturn the Trump administration s hard-line immigration policies.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deported at least 72 people to Haiti on Monday, including a two-month-old baby and 21 other children, in an apparent flagrant breach of the Biden administration’s orders only to remove suspected terrorists and potentially dangerous convicted felons. The children were deported to Haiti on Monday on two flights chartered by Ice from Laredo, Texas to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The removals sent.
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President Biden ordered a 100-day moratorium on deportations as one of his first acts in office. But on Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, deported at least 72 people to Haiti. Those deported included a 2-month-old baby and 21 other babies and children â which seems to contradict the order by a federal judge that blocked the moratorium but left in place instructions that only the most serious immigration cases should be subject to deportation.
The Guardianreports the adults and children were deported on two flights to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince as the country faces skyrocketing political violence and protests against the Haitian president’s U.S.-backed regime. They’ve been going on for months, these protests.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday deported at least 72 people to Haiti, including a two-month-old baby and 21 other children, in an apparent flagrant breach of orders by US President Joe Biden’s administration only to remove suspected terrorists and potentially dangerous convicted felons.
The children were deported to Haiti on two flights chartered by ICE from Laredo, Texas, to the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The removals sent vulnerable infants back to Haiti as it is being roiled by major political unrest.
ICE is facing a rising chorus of denunciation as a “rogue agency” for its apparent refusal to abide by
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