US To Haitians: Despite Earthquake, Go Home
December 11, 2010 2:19 PM
From cbs4

MIAMI (CBS4) – Haitians in the US illegally had been given a pass when it comes to deportations, thanks to the earthquake which devastated their country 11 months ago. Now, for some, that break is being ended.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said Friday that the U.S. expects to begin flying deportees with criminal records back to Haiti in January in coordination with Haiti’s government. Many of the people who would be deported are South Florida residents or have family here.

Gonzalez says ICE must deport people with criminal records or release them, “if their repatriation is not reasonably foreseeable.â€