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The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that a deportation flight arriving in Haiti on July 16 carried more than 100 individuals with convictions for serious crimes including violent offenses and child sexual abuse. The passengers represented a significant enforcement action targeting foreign nationals with criminal histories spanning armed carjacking, drug trafficking, and child molestation, according to DHS officials.
Among those deported was Styv Charles, convicted of child molestation, and Timothe Matel, previously convicted of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a minor. Marc James Guerrier Pinard faced an armed carjacking conviction, while Markendy Henry carried multiple narcotics convictions including drug trafficking, heroin sales, and weapons charges. Additionally, Fito Almanor was removed following convictions for domestic violence and false imprisonment.
DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis characterized the operation as essential to protecting American communities. “Criminal illegal aliens have NO place in American communities,” Bis stated, adding that the department’s message to undocumented immigrants is unambiguous: “LEAVE NOW. If you don’t, we will find you and deport you.”
The deportations follow the Trump administration’s June 2025 decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for approximately 520,000 Haitians residing in the United States. The administration justified the action as restoring “integrity in our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protected Status is actually temporary.” Congress established TPS in 1990 to provide refuge for nationals of countries experiencing natural disasters, armed conflict, or other extraordinary conditions, with provisions for 18-month renewal increments.
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that Haitians holding TPS cannot seek federal court intervention to challenge revocation of their legal status under the Trump administration’s policy changes.
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