Haitian deportees assaulted U.S. pilots, injured
three ICE officers
Male deportees assaulted the pilots of a flight
carrying families when it landed in Port-au-Prince and attacked three ICE
officers on the plane.
Sept. 22,
2021, 12:00 AM CEST / Updated Sept. 22, 2021, 2:27 AM CEST
By Julia
Ainsley
WASHINGTON
— Haitians deported from the U.S. on Tuesday assaulted the pilots on board one
of the flights when it arrived in Port-au-Prince and injured three U.S.
immigration officers, according to a source familiar with internal reports of
the incident.
Unrest
broke out shortly after a flight carrying single adult men arrived and released
the men to Haitian authorities on the tarmac. Then, the source said, several of
the men stormed another recently arrived flight carrying families.
The men
assaulted the pilots of that plane, who work for a government contractor
licensed to fly deportation flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
while the families were still on board. Three ICE officers were also attacked
on that plane, each suffering non-life-threatening injuries, the source said.
In a
statement, a DHS spokesperson said, “On Tuesday, Sept. 21, some adult migrants
caused two separate disruptions on the tarmac after deplaning in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitian crowd control officers responded to both
incidents and resolved the situations. ICE fully respects the rights of all
people to peacefully express their opinions, while continuing to perform its
immigration enforcement mission consistent with our priorities, federal law and
agency policy.”
The U.S.
has been ramping up its deportations of Haitians after more than 15,000
overwhelmed the U.S. border by congregating under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas,
in just a matter of days. As of Tuesday, just over 1,000 of the Haitian
migrants had been deported to Haiti, according to two sources familiar with the
operations.
A total of
4,000 have been either deported or moved to other processing centers along the
border, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday at a Senate hearing that the
crowd in Del Rio will dissipate in the coming days.
"Expect
to see dramatic results within the next 48 to 96 hours," he said.
But after
the assaults Tuesday, some inside DHS worry that they do not have enough
security at the airports to safely land deportation flights, said the source
familiar with the incident.
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