Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The United States deported 57 people to Haiti, as Haitian authorities faced growing criticism for providing few details about efforts to rescue more than 50 people kidnapped in a deadly gang attack.
The charter flight, which carried former recipients of temporary protected status and families with children born abroad, landed Thursday at Cap-Haïtien International Airport with 51 men and six women, according to Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
Kerlande Desauguste, an official with Haiti's National Migration Office, said the deportees had varying immigration backgrounds. Some were former Temporary Protected Status program participants, while others had received humanitarian parole or had pending asylum or immigration proceedings.
Families on the flight included children born in the United States and Brazil, including a 1-year-old born in the United States, Haitian outlet Rezo Nòdwès reported.
The flight was the second from the United States to Haiti in eight days. A flight carrying 161 people arrived in Cap-Haïtien on Aug. 20, bringing the total number deported during that period to 218.
