2026-02-28

35,026 Haitians deported in January 2026 represents a pace of over 1,000 forced returns per day. The Dominican Republic accounted for ninety-eight percent of all global forced returns to Haiti in 2025 per IOM data. Haiti's existing displacement baseline of 1.45 million IDPs has no capacity to absorb additional large-scale forced return flows. Border departments lack formal reintegration infrastructure at the scale required by current return volumes. The thirty-six percent year-over-year increase in 2025 suggests structural escalation rather than temporary enforcement surge.