US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ decision to deport migrants

Daniel Foote excoriates Washington in letter addressed to Antony Blinken for deporting hundreds from a border camp

The US envoy to Haiti has resigned after just two months in the role, in protest at what he called the Biden administration's inhumane" mass deportation of Haitian migrants and asylum seekers to what he said was a highly dangerous collapsed state".

Daniel Foote's angry resignation letter is a serious blow for an administration which came to office promising a more humane approach to immigration in the wake of Donald Trump's policy of child separation. The state departmentsaid he had given a misleading account of his resignation. A senior official said that Foote had advocated sending in US troops to impose order, and that had been rejected.