Second Deportation Flight in a Week Lands 161 in Cap-Haïtien From US and Bahamas

Two deportation flights landed at Cap-Haïtien International Airport within hours of each other on August 27, 2026 — 104 people removed from the Bahamas' Carmichael Road Detention Centre (76 men, 27 women, 1 girl) and 57 more from the United States, including children born in the US and Brazil — for a combined 161 arrivals. Haiti's National Office of Migration said none of the group were former Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries; deportees instead included people in removal proceedings after entering the US without authorization and individuals who had completed US prison sentences. The arrivals followed the August 20 flight that brought 161 people to Cap-Haïtien in the first US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS was terminated (Supreme Court ruling effective July 26, 2026), and came amid reports the Trump administration plans to move from monthly to weekly deportation flights to Haiti — adding pressure on the northern city's already-strained capacity as gang violence and displacement engulf the south.