For days, thousands of migrants from Haiti have been trying to get protection in the USA. Many of them were deported – that caused criticism. The Haiti representative also reacted.
The US special envoy for Haiti has submitted his resignation – according to media reports in protest against the deportation of thousands of migrants from the USA to the desperately poor Caribbean country.
The US State Department said on request that Haiti Representative Daniel Foote had informed Secretary of State Antony Blinken of his withdrawal on Wednesday. Several US media, including the station PBS and the Washington Post, quoted from the letter to Blinken. Foote stated that he did not want to be associated with the “inhuman” and “counterproductive” decision of the US government to deport thousands of migrants to the Caribbean state.
According to the reports in the letter, Foote criticized US President Joe Biden’s administration towards Haiti as a whole and complained that his recommendations on the issue had been ignored and dismissed. In view of the extremely precarious situation in Haiti, the country is unable to take in thousands of migrants. Foote had only taken up his post at the end of July.
Criticism of deportations
In the past few days, thousands of migrants, mostly from Haiti, had gathered in the US border town of Del Rio in Texas and camped under a bridge – with the aim of getting protection in the US. However, after the mayor there called for help, the US government began to deport Haitians to their homeland, which, in view of the situation there, has met with sharp criticism from human rights organizations. Videos and photos that apparently show mounted US border guards rounding up migrants have recently brought the Biden government additional distress.
The desperately poor Caribbean state has long been plagued by serious political, economic and social problems. Fights between gangs for territory paralyze parts of the capital again and again and lead to supply bottlenecks. Kidnappings are on the agenda. In July, President Jovenel Moïse was shot dead by a commando in his residence. The fact has not been resolved to this day. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in mid-August, killing more than 2,200 people. The country’s health system, which was already overworked, is already overwhelmed by the corona pandemic.
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