Haiti Place Bahamas to deport 290 Haitians

News Information

  • NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
  • NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 28, 2015
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  • Category : General News
  • Description : Friday, April 24, 2015

    Photo: Youtchike Dormeus, 18, a repatriated Haitian, holds her one-year-old daughter Chemael Jean, as she is interviewed after landing at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, yesterday, Wednesday, November 26. (Photo:AP)
  • Location : Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
  • Website : http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bahamas-to-deport-290-Haitians_18810379

Overview

  • NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — The Bahamian Government says plans are in the making to deport 290 undocumented Haitians.

    Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell, in a statement to Parliament on Wednesday, said the Government will charter two planes to take the Haitians home.

    "I bring this to the attention of the country to demonstrate that it remains an annoying , consistent and expensive problem... these flights will take 145 people each at a cost of US$67,265. Instead of spending money on ports, roads or airports, we have to spend it on trying to deport illegal immigrants to their homes," Mitchell told legislators.

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