The Biden administration on Monday said it’s extending immigration protections for over 260,000 Haitians in the United States. Protections include deferred deportation and being able to work in the United States for an extra 18 months, until August 2024. It’s part of something called Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide […]
MIAMI—The Coast Guard has intercepted 191 Haitian migrants aboard an overloaded sailing vessel off the Bahamas that was believed to be headed for Florida, officials said on Wednesday, a day after the encounter. The Haitians were taken aboard two Coast Guard vessels on Tuesday to be given food, water, and basic medical attention, and will […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused the Biden administration of not following federal laws and “inviting” illegal migrants by changing policies meant to discourage them from entering the country.
Thousands of illegal immigrants have been expelled from the country, but Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas says thousands more illegal Haitian immigrants are being released into the United States. He said on Sunday, “About 4,000 actually have been expelled under the public health authority of the Centers for Disease Control. There are about 13,000 that are […]
Homeland Security says thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants who gathered in Texas last week are being released into the United States. The head of the agency says they’re following the law as Congress passed it, and that reform is needed.
DEL RIO, Texas—The United States has deported over 1,000 Haitians who streamed into this small border city, but officials are refusing to say how many others have been released into America’s interior.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will start to expel single adult male illegal immigrants who entered the United States in Del Rio, Texas, where an immigration crisis has been building. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told Fox News on Sunday that single adult men will be expelled via the federal government’s Title 42 rule, […]
CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico—U.S. authorities moved some 2,000 people to other immigration processing stations on Friday from a Texas border town that has been overwhelmed by an influx of Haitian and other illegal immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Saturday. Such transfers will continue “in order to ensure that irregular migrants are swiftly taken into […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The United States pledged another $32 million in aid to the victims of Haiti’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake Thursday, as the country’s interim prime minister defended his government’s response. U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power said the U.S. government had learned from the 2010 Haiti earthquake and said USAID was coordinating closely with the […]
