The U.S. government returned more than 160 Haitian nationals to Haiti on Thursday in the first deportation flight since the Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status. The individuals landed in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti’s second-largest city, aboard an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) charter.
The flight follows a legal victory for the Trump administration, which won a battle to end humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States. The administration had sought to strip the legal status of approximately 350,000 Haitians.
This move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the administration's power to revoke the key type of legal status previously granted to the affected individuals.