AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Flights to the Caribbean nation will increase from once a month to once a week now that the Supreme Court allowed President Trump to cancel a humanitarian program.Listen · 5:55 min Deportation flights to Haiti will increase as soon as this week.Credit...Jean Feguens Regala/ReutersAug. 27, 2026, 10:54 a.m. ETThe Trump administration plans to step up deportation flights to Haiti as soon as this week, according to documents obtained by The New York Times, a move intended to more quickly expel thousands of Haitians whose legal status expired this summer with the end of a humanitarian program.The administration aims to increase the pace of flights from once a month to once a week, the documents show, potentially allowing for the deportation of hundreds more people per month. The flights are expected to continue weekly in the near term, though a U.S. official cautioned that the plans were still being finalized.The push comes after the Supreme Court ruled in June that the administration was free to end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, a program that blocks the deportation of people from designated countries deemed too dangerous to return its citizens to. The Trump administration concluded that Haiti is safe enough to be removed from the protected list, despite widespread lawlessness and gang activity in the country.The State Department has warned U.S. travelers not to visit Haiti “due to the risk of crime, kidnapping, terrorism, unrest and limited health care.” The Federal Aviation Administration banned commercial airlines from landing in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, earlier this year, citing “ongoing instability.” There have been reports of gangs firing on aircraft trying to land at the Port-au-Prince airport.“There is not even a vestige of a state in control,” said Daniel Foote, the Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti, who resigned in 2021 over the deportations of Haitian migrants. Mr. Foote, who remains in contact with people on the ground in Haiti, said the deportations would likely include many Haitian immigrants who have spent most of their lives in the United States and will now be sent to a dangerous environment.“Not only has it not gotten better, it hasn’t stabilized,” Mr. Foote said. “It just continues to get worse and worse and worse.”Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT