First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161
The Trump administration ended temporary protected status for over 350,000 Haitians in June 2026
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A Haitian flag is is seen flying in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 2026.Ryan Murphy/AFP via Getty Images, FILE
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What this story says
- A US deportation flight landed in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, on 21 August 2026 carrying 161 passengers, the first since the Trump administration ended temporary protected status for Haitians in June.
- The flight departed from Alexandria, Louisiana, and all passengers were released upon arrival, according to Cuban and Haitian officials.
- Haiti’s National Office of Migration initially expected 175 individuals but confirmed 161 aboard.
- No right-rated outlet reported on the flight, according to the digests and reports available.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 9 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .
Trust
65/100
Craft
75/100
Hype
15/100
9 sources · methodology
Thin on the right so far
None of the 9 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight landed at Cap-Haïtien Airport on 21 August 2026 carrying 161 passengers. The flight departed from Alexandria, Louisiana, according to a Department of Homeland Security official and Haiti’s National Civil Aviation Office. It was the first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration ended temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians in June 2026.
All passengers were released upon arrival, Cuban officials told outlets. Haiti’s National Office of Migration had initially expected 175 individuals but confirmed 161 aboard, its director general, Jean Négot Bonheur Delva, said. Community leaders described the flight as one of the largest they had seen and said it included people detained in recent weeks.
It remains unclear whether any former temporary protected status holders were on the flight. The Trump administration ended temporary protected status for Haitians in June 2026 following a US Supreme Court order that allowed the termination of protections for over 350,000 people from Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria, Myanmar and other countries.
What the coverage left out
None of the digests or reports from right-rated outlets mentioned the flight or the end of temporary protected status for Haitians.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 2 times, most recently on 21 Aug 2026, 02:15, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
7 rated outlets
- The left-rated reports led on the scale of the flight and its timing after the end of temporary protected status. ABC News reported that the flight was the first since TPS ended and noted that hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Ohio had been summoned for in-person check-ins with the Department of Homeland Security, some fitted with ankle monitors. The outlet also mentioned a third-country deportation flight to Liberia on the same day.
- The Washington Post’s digest described the flight as one of the largest community leaders had seen and said it included people detained in recent weeks. The Miami Herald’s digest reported the discrepancy between the expected and actual number of passengers, quoting Haiti’s National Office of Migration director general.
- ABC News used the term “deportation flight” in its headline and body text. The Seattle Times’s digest described the flight as carrying out deportations after ending “humanitarian protections” for Haitians.
Centre
2 rated outlets
- The centre-rated digests led on the end of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians. Bloomberg’s digest described the flight as the first since the administration ended “humanitarian protections” for Haitians living in the US. The Tribune Content Agency did not publish a report or digest on the flight.
Right
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161?
- Of the 9 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 78% are rated left, 22% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161 left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 9 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161 biased?
- First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161 is one event reported by 9 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered First US deportation flight to Haiti since TPS cancellation carries 161?
- 9 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- How many people were on the deportation flight to Haiti?
- The flight carried 161 passengers, according to Haiti’s National Office of Migration. Officials had initially expected 175 individuals. All passengers were released upon arrival in Cap-Haïtien on 21 August 2026.
- Why was this flight significant?
- It was the first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration ended temporary protected status for over 350,000 Haitians in June 2026. The flight marked the start of deportations following the Supreme Court’s order allowing the termination of protections.
- Did any right-rated outlets report on the flight?
- No right-rated outlet reported on the flight, according to the digests and reports available. The story was covered by left- and centre-rated outlets only.
Read it at the source
9 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
7- Trump sends first Haiti deportation flight after ending protected status for 350,000 (opens The Seattle Times in a new tab)
The Seattle Times — is The Seattle Times biased? Our profile of this outlet
- First ICE deportation flight to Haiti since the end of TPS lands in Cap-Haïtien (opens Miami Herald in a new tab)
Miami Herald — is Miami Herald biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Trump admin sends 1st deportation flight to Haiti since ending temporary protected status (opens ABC News in a new tab)
- ICE begins deporting Haitians who lost TPS back to homeland (opens The Washington Post in a new tab)
The Washington Post — is The Washington Post biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Haiti Receives the First U.S. Deportation Flight Since the End of the TPS (opens El Pais in a new tab)
- Trump administration carries out first deportation flight to Haiti since legal protections ended - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports (opens WSVN in a new tab)
- First ICE deportation flight to Haiti since the end of TPS lands in Cap-Haïtien (opens The spokesman-Review in a new tab)
The spokesman-Review — is The spokesman-Review biased? Our profile of this outlet
Centre
2Right
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Not rated
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
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