US special envoy for Haiti resigns, denouncing “inhumane deportations”

His resignation was submitted by their special envoy USA for Haiti, the ambassador Daniel Foot, denouncing, in this move, the “inhuman” deportations from the United States thousands of Haitian refugees, while the inhabitants of the country are facing enormous difficulties, after one strong earthquake and assassination of its president.

“I will not link myself to the inhumane and counterproductive decision of the United States to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where our civil servants are restricted from insuring building complexes because of the risk posed by armed gangs in the control of everyday life “, Mr. Fout states in his resignation letter.

This letter is dated yesterday and is addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Anthony Blinken, broadcasts by ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ.

“We thank Special Envoy Foot for his commitment to the country and the people of Haiti,” he said. State Department in a comment to AFP.

Daniel Foot sought to extend his decision-making powers on US policy toward Haiti, and the Biden government decided that not was the right person to give him so much control, a high-ranking official told the agency on condition of anonymity.

It is recalled that the US suspended the deportations of Haitian illegal immigrants after the earthquake that devastated the southern half of Haiti on August 14, but the gathering within a few days more than 15,000 immigrants, the majority of whom are Haitians, less than one bridge in texas changed the data.

As of Sunday, US Immigration Services had chartered 12 flights in order to send more than 1,400 people including hundreds children, in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Etienne, the second largest city in the country.

These deportations were cauterized, in the previous days, by UN.

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