The immigration authorities of the United States will resume the expulsions, temporarily suspended after the earthquake of January 12, of the Haitians on the U.S. territory having a criminal record.

Barbara Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) declared friday, that expulsions in collaboration with the Government of Haiti, will resume. A first flight is expected in January 2011. The spokesman said that Haitians who have criminal records, will be deported or released "if their repatriation is not reasonably foreseeable" .

For their part, the lawyers and agents of immigration, saying that conditions in Haiti have not improved sufficiently so that these expulsions resume. Recalling that a cholera epidemic ravaged the country since mid-October and that the State Department this week issued a travel warning for Haiti, due to political instability that has plagued the country since the publication of the preliminary results of elections of 28 November.

HL/ HaitiLibre