First deportation flight lands in Haiti after TPS suspension

ICE charter carrying more than 160 Haitian nationals landed in Cap-Haïtien, after temporary protection status was revoked

The first deportation flight to Haiti since the US supreme court upheld Donald Trump’s power https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/supreme-court-haitians-syrians-temporary-protected-status">to strip 350,000 Haitians – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/supreme-court-tps-immigration">and others – of a key type of legal status in the US landed in the troubled nation on Thursday.

The flight was carrying more that 160 Haitian nationals and landed in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti’s second-largest city, aboard an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement">ICE) charter.