An Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight carrying 161 passengers departed from Alexandria, Louisiana, and landed in Cap Haitien, Haiti, on Thursday. This marks the first deportation flight to the Caribbean nation since the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Haitians.
According to a Department of Homeland Security official and Haiti's National Civil Aviation Office, all passengers on the flight were released upon arrival. It remains unclear if any former TPS holders were among those on board.
The flight's dispatch coincides with the end of TPS for Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria, Myanmar, and other countries. This follows a U.S. Supreme Court order in June that permitted the Trump administration to end TPS for over 350,000 Haitians.
Reports indicated that hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Ohio, who had been in the United States under TPS, were summoned for in-person check-ins with DHS, with some subsequently fitted with ankle monitors.
Separately, on Thursday, a deportation flight landed in Liberia, West Africa, representing the first forced third-country transfer to that nation under an agreement with the U.S. government.