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Rights advocates demand end to Haiti deportations as unrest continues

Haitian citizens get off a truck as they are sent back to Haiti from the Dominican Republic on March 17 [File: Fran Afonso/Reuters]

Rights advocates are calling on countries across the Americas — notably the United States and the Dominican Republic — to stop deporting migrants and asylum seekers to Haiti amid a surge in gang violence and political instability there.

Speaking at an event on Thursday in Washington, DC, Guerline Jozef, head of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a US-based advocacy group, explained that “there is no safe space” for displaced Haitians.

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