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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) \u2014 The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti<\/span> on Thursday for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle<\/span> to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians.<\/p>\n

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The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien<\/span> because the main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous. The U.S. government currently has a ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti\u2019s capital through early September because of ongoing gang violence<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces out of safety as journalists filmed their arrival. Nearly all declined to talk, with some fearing being targeted by gangs that control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and swaths of land beyond.<\/p>\n

The deportees included TPS holders<\/span> and Haitians who had served prison sentences, said Jean N\u00e9got Bonheur Delva, director general of Haiti\u2019s National Office of Migration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the Haitian state that asks for them to be sent back,\u201d he said. \u201cOur mission is to welcome migrants of forced return. \u2026 We welcome them with the aim of accompanying them to their home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Delva noted that some of the deportees were not born in Haiti, although they are of Haitian descent.<\/p>\n

He said that several deportees planned to travel to Haiti\u2019s southern region, a dangerous journey because gangs control the main routes leading to that area and are known to randomly open fire on vehicles passing through.<\/p>\n

Others are going to Haiti\u2019s western region, he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is one migrant who knows nothing about Haiti because he said he was coming from the Dominican Republic; that\u2019s where he was born,\u201d Delva said.<\/p>\n

He said the government would attempt to reunify him with any potential relatives in Haiti or the Dominican Republic, where his mother and father live.<\/p>\n

Immigration officials in Haiti on Thursday offered deportees a maximum of $65 and something to drink and eat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who cannot reach their homes today, we will host them in secure spaces and the next day the process will continue until all migrants return home as they should,\u201d Delva said.<\/p>\n

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Delva did not say how many of the 161 deportees were TPS holders<\/span> who had been living and working legally in the U.S. since 2010.<\/p>\n

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