The US special envoy to Haiti resigned Thursday two months after his appointment, denouncing the Biden administration’s deportation of Haitian migrants from the US-Mexico border back to their home country.
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 26, 2016, Daniel Foote, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing concerning cartels and the US heroin epidemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. – Foote, the US State Department Special Envoy to Haiti, resigned on September 23, 2021, two months after his appointment, denouncing the Biden administration’s deportations of Haitian migrants back to their home country. “I will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti,” Foote said in a scathing letter of resignation. (Photo by Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
