American Airlines Cancels Resumption of Flights to Haiti Amid Gang Violence
American Airlines has backtracked on its plans to resume flights to the gang ridden nation of Haiti in February, company officials said.
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.
A Kenyan Interior Ministry official said a force of police officers is finally ready to depart for Haiti after almost a year of hurdles.
Donald Trump reached out to Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker (R), whose daughter and son-in-law, missionaries, were killed by gangs in Haiti.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) shared a letter written to President Joe Biden on Sunday in which he called for protection to be given to the remains of Davy and Natalie Lloyd as they are transported back to the United States from Haiti.
President Joe Biden promised to designate Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO ally” during a state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday.
Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker (R) revealed that his daughter and son-in-law had died after being attacked by gangs while serving as missionaries in Haiti.
A rare tornado struck the northern Haitian community of Bassin-Bleu on Tuesday, injuring more than 50 people and leaving about 300 homeless.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro denounced the disappearance of more than a million pieces of ammunition and weapons from 2 military bases.
Haiti’s transitional council named former senate president Edgard Gardy Leblanc Fils as temporary president of the nation on Tuesday and tapped former youth minister Fritz Belizaire as interim prime minister.
Criminal gang leaders in Haiti threatened the recently inaugurated “Transitional Council” in charge of the country on Monday.
Haiti’s recently-empaneled transitional council announced on Saturday that it will vote for a new president on Tuesday, five days after Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s resignation left the country without official leadership.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry formally resigned on Thursday after Haiti’s “Transitional Council” was sworn in.
The FWC, along with local, state, and federal authorities, halted a vessel off the coast of Miami-Dade which contained over two dozen illegal migrants.
Haitian gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier ordered his men to “burn every house you find” as the transitional council prepares to meet.