U.S. government criticized for conducting new deportation flight to Haiti despite ongoing violence

Residents flee their homes as gang violence escalates in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Credit: Clarens Siffroy/AFP)

Different organizations criticized on Thursday the decision by the U.S. government to conduct a new deportation flight of Haitian migrants despite the country still being engulfed in violence.

This was the second deportation flight since late February, when an already chaotic situation was exacerbated further and gangs intensified their attacks on the country's police and institutions.