President Biden’s special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest of the “inhumane” deportations, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Daniel Foote, appointed in July following the assassination of Haiti’s president, was already frustrated with the lack of urgency from the Biden administration before the Del Rio border crisis, the Associated Press reports.
Foote wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he was stepping down immediately “with deep disappointment and apologies to those seeking crucial changes.”
“I will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs to daily life,” he wrote. “Our policy approach to Haiti remains deeply flawed, and my policy recommendations have been ignored and dismissed, when not edited to project a narrative different from my own.”
