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Tell President Biden: Stop Deportations Now!
Posted on Feb 03 2021
Paul Pierrilus is not a Haitian citizen, had never been to Haiti, has no family there, and doesn’t speak Haitian-Creole fluently. He was deported to Haiti anyway on February 2. Haiti’s in political crisis: the Biden administration should promptly acknowledge this inhumane “error,” bring him back to the United States, hold those responsible accountable, and cancel ICE plans to expel 1800 Haitians in the next two weeks!
His lawyer, Nicole Phillips, had gotten a last-minute reprieve, getting Pierrilus removed from a deportation flight on January 19. But ICE is moving as quickly as it can, without regard for Biden administration policies, to deport Haitians and Africans as quickly as possible. So they put Pierrilus on the February 2 flight with more than 100 other people, all deported to Haiti, which is in the middle of COVID crisis, political turmoil, and a countrywide general strike.
“The United States government made a huge error by deporting a stateless person, in this case to Haiti. So they need to do everything they can to fix this problem,” Phillips said. “This is not a country that he should have ever been deported to.”
“In addition to Tuesday’s flight, there was another flight to Haiti on Monday with 102 detainees, she said, and 1,800 more Haitians are in the pipeline to be return to their homeland in the next two weeks.”
Other deportation flights have gone to Africa, deporting people to Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mali, despite the violence and persecution in those countries that puts their lives at risk.
Call the Biden Administration and urge them to stop deportations, expulsions, transfers, and to ground ICE-air related flights.
@WhiteHouse (202-456-1111)
@DHSgov (202-282-8495)