The U.N. High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday released its annual Global Trends Report, which found a record high of 123.2 million people were displaced from their homes around the world due to “persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, and events seriously disturbing the public order.”
Dozens of Haitians on Sunday marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of Interim Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Transitional Presidential Council amid an escalation of gang violence.
Officials from the Trump administration have reportedly notified Congress they plan to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, a move that would authorize sanctions for any entity or corporation that provides material support for the gangsters.
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from ending deportation protections for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
Thousands of Haitian citizens marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday to protest escalating gang violence.
Two Kenyan police officers were seriously injured in battles with Haitian street gangs this week, while an officer who went missing last week has reportedly been killed – the second fatality in Kenya’s peacekeeping deployment to gang-ravaged Haiti.
Haitian gang boss Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier over the weekend threatened a “violent reprisal” after police raided his stronghold in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas neighborhood, the newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported on Sunday.
A Haitian migrant charged with triple murder came into the U.S. via a humanitarian parole program during former President Joe Biden’s administration, according to reports.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem rescinded the Biden administration’s decision to extend Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by 18 months.
A senior State Department official confirmed that the State Department has granted foreign spending freeze waivers for Haiti.
Specialized members of Haiti’s National Police together with members of the Kenyan-led multinational security mission to Haiti over the weekend launched a major security operation to crack down on pre-Carnival activities organized by 400 Mawozo, one of the nation’s largest gangs.
The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.
Haitian gangsters opened fire on a government press conference at Haiti’s largest public hospital on Tuesday, killing two journalists and a police officer. The Viv Ansanm gang said it committed the atrocity because it controls that portion of Port-au-Prince, and did not give the hospital permission to resume operations.
American Airlines has backtracked on its plans to resume flights to the gang ridden nation of Haiti in February, company officials said.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Monday that up to half of Haiti’s armed gang members are children, employed as “informants, cooks and sex slaves” in addition to being “forced to perpetrate violence.”
Hundreds of Haitians packed their belongings and fled from previously secure districts of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as a running battle broke out between gangsters and police.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice on Tuesday banning all flights to Haiti for at least 30 days following three gun attacks on planes flying to the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
A Spirit Airlines flight was battered by gunfire while it attempted to land in Haiti on Monday, leading to an injured flight attendant and a diversion to the Dominican Republic.
A United Nations helicopter was hit by several rounds of gunfire while flying over Haiti on Thursday, forcing the chopper to land in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Tuesday that the situation in the impoverished and violence-torn nation has “regrettably worsened” because ambitious gangs are now attacking territory they do not control yet, rather than merely terrorizing people on the turf they already rule.
Where were Haiti’s elite anti-gang police on October 3 when more than 88 Haitians were murdered by gangs in a rural town?
Haitian gangs are bolstering their manpower by recruiting more young boys as child soldiers, while young girls become sex slaves.
Haiti’s prime minister, Garry Conille, traveled to Kenya and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday to plead for security assistance after a vicious gang attack on the farming town of Pont-Sonde on Thursday killed at least 70 people and displaced 6,000 more.
The Dominican Republic plans to implement an “immediate” program to deport as many as 10,000 migrants per week, mostly Haitians.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed at Tuesday evening’s vice presidential debate that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s mobile app for migrants at the southern border has “been on the books since 1990.”
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief suggested Monday that Springfield, Ohio, “has blossomed by reason of the infusion of individuals from another country.”
The head of Haiti’s “Transitional Presidential Council” demanded “historical reparations” for his country at the U.N. General Assembly.
Donald Trump is promising to quickly send home the million-plus “parole” migrants who have been smuggled into the United States by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
A group that campaigns for more Haitian migration asked judges Tuesday in Springfield, Ohio, to arrest and file criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and JD Vance.
ICE officials arrested a Haitian migrant in Boston who was previously expelled and who had also been charged with sexual assault.
U.S. officials are again issuing strong warnings for people not to travel to Haiti as the Caribbean country suffers from violent crime and gang activity.
President Donald Trump says he will visit Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo. where orchestrated, government-subsidized migrations are flooding ordinary Americans out of jobs, homes, and a stable community.
With the arrival of thousands of Haitian migrants to Springfield, Ohio, has come more welfare enrollees, higher housing costs for local residents, and a surge in vehicle accidents.
The Miami Heat felt the need to attack Americans worried about having thousands of non-English-speaking migrants dumped in their small towns.
More Americans in Springfield, Ohio, are openly describing how federally-funded migration has skewed their economy, destabilized their neighborhoods, and created a two-tier society that promotes migrants over Americans.
The government’s delivery of roughly 20,000 migrants to Springfield, Ohio, has been a boon for real estate, local employers, auto salesmen, merchants, and the migrants — but also an unwanted shock to locals as they try to manage their own community.
Acting Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said Tuesday his government has received only a fraction of the funding and manpower promised by the international community to fight back against the gangs that have violently taken control over most of the country.
A Haitian migrant accused of raping a 15-year-old girl months ago has since been released from jail on $500 bail in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended and redesignated a temporary amnesty program to more than 300,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States, ensuring they are not eligible for deportation and can hold American jobs.
At least five people were killed and 30 wounded in Kenya on Tuesday when anti-tax protesters attempted to storm Parliament and police responded by firing live ammunition.
