Deportations to storm-crippled Haiti resume

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Monday, 12.08.08
Deportations to storm-crippled Haiti resume
By KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press Writer

MIAMI -- Deportations to Haiti have resumed after being suspended for nearly three months following a wave of deadly storms that racked the country, federal immigration officials said Monday.

Immigration officials temporarily stopped returning residents to Haiti in September after hundreds were killed in four storms.

"The individuals being returned have final orders of removal and the necessary travel documents," ICE spokeswoman Nicole Navas said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "We have contacted interested members of Congress to apprise them of the reinstituted removals."

Navas didn't provide further details on the timing of the flights or discuss numbers of deportees.

"This decision only complicates the Haitian government's ongoing recovery effort," U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, a Florida Democrat, said in an e-mail. "The Bush administration has less than six weeks to do the right thing and grant Haitians Temporary Protective Status."

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