2025-12-28

Nineteen Haitian migrants intercepted December 24 at Canada border during intense cold wave attempting irregular crossing from United States Incident demonstrates desperation of migration flows driven by gang control of 80 percent of Port-au-Prince and 1.4 million internally displaced persons Migrants accepted life-threatening exposure risks on Christmas Eve indicating security and humanitarian conditions in Haiti are sufficiently dire December 28, 2025 US Embassy reaffirmed support for World Food Programme December 28 but humanitarian assistance does not address governance drivers of migration Migration pressure will intensify if February 7 constitutional deadline triggers institutional collapse or gang territorial expansion accelerates