Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
(28 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cap Haïtien, Haiti - 27 August 2026
1. Deportees from the U.S getting off the plane and walking towards immigration control
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Dabelus, Bahamian deportee:
“I just arrived in Haiti. I don’t know much about Haiti. Actually, I don’t know anything about Haiti. I was born in the Bahamas, and I had been living in the U.S.A. for about 20-something years.”
3. Deportees waling
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Dabelus, Bahamian deportee:
“Other than that, I’m in the land of Haiti. It is nice here, but I am trying to move on. I don’t have any resources, family members, or people to aid me, so I am trying to see how I can go from there.”
5. Bahamian deportee Jay Dabelus, waiting at immigration control
STORYLINE:
The U.S. on Thursday deported dozens more people to Haiti following a recent gang attack that left 47 dead and more than 50 kidnapped.
Among the deportees was a professional boxer born in the Bahamas.
“I don’t know anything about Haiti,” said Jay Dabelus. “I wasn’t born here.”
Dabelus said he left the Bahamas when he was about six years old and had been living for more than 20 years in the United States before he was detained.
“It is nice here, but I’m trying to move on,” he said. “I don’t have any resources, family members, or people to aid me.”
Thursday’s flight arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien because the main international airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is deemed too dangerous.
Aboard the flight were more than 50 people, including two minors, according to Kerlande Desauguste, an official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration.
It is the second deportation flight since Temporary Protected Status ended for some 350,000 Haitians in the United States.
The first one arrived on Aug. 20, carrying more than 160 people, including TPS holders.
Like previous deportees, those who arrived on Thursday covered their faces for safety.
AP Video shot by Gérard Maxineau
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(28 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cap Haïtien, Haiti - 27 August 2026
1. Deportees from the U.S getting off the plane and walking towards immigration control
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Dabelus, Bahamian deportee:
“I just arrived in Haiti. I don’t know much about Haiti. Actually, I don’t know anything about Haiti. I was born in the Bahamas, and I had been living in the U.S.A. for about 20-something years.”
3. Deportees waling
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Dabelus, Bahamian deportee:
“Other than that, I’m in the land of Haiti. It is nice here, but I am trying to move on. I don’t have any resources, family members, or people to aid me, so I am trying to see how I can go from there.”
5. Bahamian deportee Jay Dabelus, waiting at immigration control
STORYLINE:
The U.S. on Thursday deported dozens more people to Haiti following a recent gang attack that left 47 dead and more than 50 kidnapped.
Among the deportees was a professional boxer born in the Bahamas.
“I don’t know anything about Haiti,” said Jay Dabelus. “I wasn’t born here.”
Dabelus said he left the Bahamas when he was about six years old and had been living for more than 20 years in the United States before he was detained.
“It is nice here, but I’m trying to move on,” he said. “I don’t have any resources, family members, or people to aid me.”
Thursday’s flight arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien because the main international airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is deemed too dangerous.
Aboard the flight were more than 50 people, including two minors, according to Kerlande Desauguste, an official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration.
It is the second deportation flight since Temporary Protected Status ended for some 350,000 Haitians in the United States.
The first one arrived on Aug. 20, carrying more than 160 people, including TPS holders.
Like previous deportees, those who arrived on Thursday covered their faces for safety.
AP Video shot by Gérard Maxineau
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