WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it recently conducted single adult and family unit removal flights to Jamaica and Haiti.
ICE, a component agency of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), working in close coordination across the department, including with US Customs and Border Protection, said it continued to facilitate removal flights of single adults and family units between July 22 and July 26.
This included removal flights to Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru.
“If a noncitizen arrives and has no legal basis to remain in the United States, they are processed and removed quickly, consistent with US law,” ICE said.
In the year following the end of the Title 42 public health order — between May 12, 2023, and May 12, 2024 — ICE said DHS removed or returned over 742,000 individuals, the vast majority of whom crossed the southwest border, including more than 111,000 individual family members.
Throughout the last three fiscal years, ICE said most southwest border encounters resulted in removal, return or expulsion.
ICE said DHS has removed and returned more than 65,000 individuals to more than 125 countries, including by operating more than 200 international repatriation flights since the presidential proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border and the complementary joint interim final rule issued by DHS and the US Department of Justice took effect seven weeks ago.
In fiscal year 2023, ICE said it Enforcement and Removal Operations conducted 142,580 removals and 62,545 Title 42 expulsions to more than 170 countries worldwide.
