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Cuban migrants wait on the side of U.S. 1 for family to picked them up after they were released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Marathon, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

U.S. removes Cuban migrants from remote Florida islands

By Cody Jackson and Terry Spencer - Associated Press

FILE - Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his private residence in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Henry and 18 top-ranking officials have requested on the second week of Oct. 2022, the immediate deployment of foreign armed troops as gangs and protesters paralyze the country. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

U.S. to pull visas of Haitian officials, send assistance

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - A protester carries a piece of wood simulating a weapon during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 3, 2022. Haiti's government has agreed to request the help of international armed forces as gangs and protesters paralyze the country and basic supplies including fuel and water dwindle, a top ranking Haitian official told The Associated Press on Friday, Oct 7. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

U.N. eyes deploying a rapid armed force to Haiti to help end

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Blue tarps serve as roof coverings in Camp Devirel set up by earthquake refugees in Les Cayes, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. A year after a magnitude-7.2 quake hit southern Haiti, the hundreds that were left homeless are still living in the same makeshift tents. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Many still seeking food, shelter a year after Haiti quake

By Evens Sanon and Danica Coto - Associated Press

In this Oct. 2, 2018, file photo, semi-automatic rifles are displayed on a wall at a gun shop in Lynnwood, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) **FILE**

Feds concerned about increase in weapons smuggling from Miami to Haiti

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Women show their discomfort as they are being photographed selling contraband gasoline in plastic gallons jugs on a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

UN decries rising death toll, rights violations in Haiti

Associated Press

Barbecue, the leader of the &quot;G9 and Family&quot; gang, stands next to garbage to call attention to the conditions people live in as he leads a march against kidnapping through La Saline neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. The group said they were also protesting poverty and for justice in the slaying of President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Haiti’s struggle worsened in year since slaying of president

By Evens Sanon and Danica Coto - Associated Press

Loverie Horat, left, sits by her mother holding her 24-day-old daughter Maylie Dhavavaise as her husband Maximaud Cherizad looks on, at a campground being used to house the large group of Haitian migrants with whom they are traveling, in Sierra Morena in Cuba's Villa Clara province, Thursday, May 26, 2022. A vessel carrying more than 800 Haitians trying to reach the United States wound up instead on the coast of central Cuba, in what appeared to be the largest group seen yet in a swelling exodus from crisis-stricken Haiti. (AP Photo Ramon Espinosa)

‘No future for babies:’ 842 US-bound Haitians end up in Cuba

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

A fisherman pulls his net back onto his boat in the waters surrounding Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Friday, March 11, 2022. A prize winning marine biologist is working to bring together fishermen from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and find a solution that will not only save their livelihoods but also vital marine resources in a region under extreme pressures from climate change. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

For marine biologist, Haitian gangs make work dangerous

By Trenton Daniel and Pierre-Richard Luxama - Associated Press

Haitians deported from the United States try to board the same plane in which they were deported, in an attempt to return to the United States, on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. Human Rights Watch released a report Thursday, March 23, 2022, demanding that the U.S. and other countries stop deporting Haitians to their homeland, calling it “unconscionable” and warning that they were putting people’s lives in danger. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Human rights group decries deportation to ‘chaos’ in Haiti

By Danica Coto and Evens Sanon - Associated Press

In this April 7, 2018, file photo, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, center, leaves the museum during a ceremony marking the 215th anniversary of revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture's death, at the National Pantheon museum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Moïse was assassinated after a group of unidentified people attacked his private residence, the country’s interim prime minister said in a statement Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

U.S. arrests, charges suspect in Haitian president slaying

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Astrid Suarez - Associated Press

A manager at the Christian Aid Ministries headquarters, right, speaks with a worker at the door of the center in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) ** FILE **

All hostages freed in Haiti, U.S. missionary groups says

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Men bathe in the Massacre River on the border between Dominican Republic and Haiti, in Ouanaminthe, Dominican Republic, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. As the rest of the world closes its doors to Haitian migrants, the country that shares an island with Haiti also is cracking down in a way that human rights activists say hasn’t been seen in decades. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Dominican Republic expels, mistreats Haitians, activists say

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Protesters demand the release of kidnapped missionaries near the missionaries' headquarters in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, Oct. 16, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Two of the 17 U.S. missionaries abducted in Haiti have been freed, Christian Aid Ministries says

Associated Press

People wrangle over a gas pump as they try to get their tanks filled at a gas station, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. Nov 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

U.S. urges citizens to leave Haiti amid deepening turmoil

Associated Press

A worker stands on a truckload of corn flakes donated from the AAA political party to residents in the gang-controlled Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) ** FILE **

White House says Biden engaged, considering ‘every possible option’ to rescue hostages in Haiti

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

People gather for a vigil in Hart, Mich., on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, to pray for the return of 17 members of a missionary group who were kidnapped by a gang in Haiti more than a week ago. Among those taken were four children and a parent from Hart. (AP Photo/Anna Liz Nichols)

Group defends work in Haiti of 17 abducted missionaries

By Pierre-Richard Luxama and Nancy Benac - Associated Press

People protest for the release of kidnapped missionaries near the missionaries' headquarters in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, Oct. 16, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Haitian gang threatens to kill missionaries: ‘I will put a bullet in the heads of these Americans’

By Evens Sanon, Matias Delacroix and Pierre-Richard Luxama - Associated Press

Security forces patrol the streets of Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A general strike continues in Haiti demanding that authorities address the nation’s lack of security, four days after 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group were abducted by a gang. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Negotiations drag on over 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

By Danica Coto and Pierre-Richard Luxama - Associated Press

Youths play soccer next to businesses that are closed due to a general strike in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Workers angry about the nation's lack of security went on strike in protest two days after 17 members of a US-based missionary group were abducted by a violent gang. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Report: Haiti gang seeks $17M for kidnapped US missionaries

By Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon - Associated Press