Representative Cory Mills from Florida has stated on X, (formally Twitter) that he aided an additional thirteen Americans to evacuate out of the Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince, after helping ten evacuate last week.
“It’s with great pride I announce that our team successfully conducted another rescue of 13 Americans out of PAP Haiti,” Mills stated. The ten Americans had been working at the Have Faith Orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti has recently been taken over by gangs, causing Prime Minister Ariel Henry to step down. Vedant Patel, a spokesperson for the State Department, said on Monday that around 1,000 Americans have completed a “crisis intake form” requesting assistance out of Haiti. Thirty Americans landed in Miami on the afternoon of Sunday, March 17th, after being airlifted from Cap-Haïtien aboard a US government flight.
“It is not hyperbole to say that this is one of the most dire humanitarian situations in the world,” Patel went on to say, also adding: “Gang violence continues to make the security situation in Haiti untenable, and it is a region that demands our attention.”
