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Florida man had no idea he was being deported to Haiti amid surge of gang violence
NBC 6 South Florida ^ | 04/25/2024 | Steve Litz

Posted on 04/25/2024 8:20:44 AM PDT by Drew68

An Orlando man, who built a life for himself in Florida, is now stuck in Haiti.

Gerson Joseph was on the deportation flight last week that went from Louisiana to Miami to Haiti.

Joseph had no idea he was being sent out of the country.

“I have no idea what I’m going to do,” he said on a phone call with NBC6 from Haiti. “I barely sleep man, I am not going to lie to you, I barely sleep, I am moving from place to place.”

Joseph was one of about 50 people sent back to Haiti last week, on the first deportation flight since gangs took over much of the country.

“They dropped us over here with no travel documents, I don’t even have a paper that can identify who I am right now, where I’m at,” said Joseph.

On Tuesday, leaders in south Florida’s Haitian American community expressed their outrage over the resumption of the deportation flight program and called on President Biden to stop future flights, noting the dire conditions in Haiti.

Joseph said he was deported because he missed immigration court date notifications, which he says got lost in the mail.

He resolved an Orlando court case, in which he was charged with criminal mischief, then went right into the custody of ICE at Krome Detention Center, then deported.

“While I was at Krome they approved for me and my fiancé to get married and everything, so I could stay in the U.S.,” said Joseph.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says people who have deportation orders will be sent back to their country of origin and said April 19 they are “monitoring the situation in Haiti.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
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To: Drew68

Orange County (Orlando) court records show 16 charges against Joseph over the last twenty years, including a number of felonies. But for a long era of weak and incompetent prosecution by Leftist state attorneys, Joseph would likely be in state prison.


21 posted on 04/25/2024 8:52:20 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: Drew68
Not Desantis, the feds.

Pedo Joe's handlers have seen the polls and are trying to make it look like they're doing something about the border.

22 posted on 04/25/2024 8:55:14 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Bon of Babble
...if Trump wins, Democrats will call him “racist” for deporting a single illegal invader and file court cases immediately to stop the process.

Hopefully the Dems will have enough other worries, like trials for sedition and treason.

Besides, they will have no more use for illegals when they lose the election.

23 posted on 04/25/2024 8:55:32 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Lurker

https://www.haitianvacation.com/


24 posted on 04/25/2024 9:01:27 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Hawaii obama judges will stop Trump in his tracks


25 posted on 04/25/2024 9:04:29 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Rockingham
Orange County (Orlando) court records show 16 charges against Joseph over the last twenty years, including a number of felonies.

So, the "life he built for himself in Orlando" was that of a petty criminal?

Color me shocked.

26 posted on 04/25/2024 9:05:05 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: dfwgator; Lurker
“While I was at Krome they approved for me and my fiancé to get married and everything, so I could stay in the U.S.,” said Joseph.

This is your Haitian divorce.

(Different song, I know.)

27 posted on 04/25/2024 9:06:50 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Drew68

“who built a life for himself in Florida”

There’s the sympathy plea.


28 posted on 04/25/2024 9:08:51 AM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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To: Chode

I think he is stretching the truth.


29 posted on 04/25/2024 9:09:15 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Chode

Excellent post, Chode!

Excellent post!


30 posted on 04/25/2024 9:09:25 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: imabadboy99

I think most of them are staying in California and not going to other states.


31 posted on 04/25/2024 9:10:49 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: rlmorel

8^)


32 posted on 04/25/2024 9:18:46 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Drew68

Well, too bad for him.


33 posted on 04/25/2024 9:19:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Drew68

“...Joseph was one of about 50 people sent back to Haiti last week,...”

Only 50??? There are thousands more. Speed up deportations!!!


34 posted on 04/25/2024 9:25:41 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: dfwgator
He said.....“They dropped us over here with no travel documents, I don’t even have a paper that can identify who I am right now, where I’m at,”


35 posted on 04/25/2024 9:29:02 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Drew68
Some Osama Obama...or Big Guy...appointee will order that he be returned to the US because his constitutional rights were violated.
36 posted on 04/25/2024 9:31:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: caww

“a paper that can identify who I am right now, where I’m at,”

..where I’m AT?” Cringe.


37 posted on 04/25/2024 9:45:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Well he likely ditched his papers illegally coming INTO this country....so Boo Hoo.


38 posted on 04/25/2024 9:49:16 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Drew68

The check is in the mail...


39 posted on 04/25/2024 10:07:54 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Drew68

He must have refused to register to vote (Democrat).


40 posted on 04/25/2024 10:10:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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