“The conditions we observed on the ground were simply horrific (…) This is not the right time to send people back to Haiti… We are sending them back into a completely chaotic situation,” Representative Ami Bera, a California Democrat and member of a congressional delegation that visited Haiti this week, told the Miami Herald on Friday, amid the end of TPS, which exposes 350,000 people to deportation to Haiti. The congressman said he specifically questioned the Prime Minister about Cap-Haïtien after senior State Department official Michael Kozak stated during a congressional hearing that deportees were being sent to that city rather than Port-au-Prince, suggesting that it could absorb the influx.

Discussions With Haitian Officials