Nearly 200,000 Haitians were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight months of 2026, almost all of them from the Dominican Republic, according to the Support Group for Repatriates and Refugees (GARR).

GARR counted at least 194,465 people expelled by the Dominican Republic. The United States returned 1,187, the Bahamas 818, the Turks and Caicos Islands 521 and Jamaica 87.

“Many Haitians expelled by the Dominican Republic arrive through border points where government services and humanitarian assistance are limited,” GARR's communications officer, Stenley Orbruth Doriscar, told the Haitian Times. “We receive thousands of people every day, and GARR's capacity to receive them is limited.”

A senior UN humanitarian official, Indrika Ratwatte, gave the same figure to the Security Council on August 28. He said it was 20,000 higher than in the same period of 2025 and roughly equal to the total for all of 2024.

The returns add to a severe crisis. The UN says 6.4 million people in Haiti need humanitarian assistance, nearly 1.5 million are displaced and more than 5.8 million face acute hunger.

GARR also fears a rise in deportations from the United States now that Temporary Protected Status has ended for more than 300,000 Haitians. One U.S. flight brought 101 people to Cap-Haïtien on September 3, and Haiti's migration office has since counted more than 500 people returned on six flights.

The group says Haiti has no reintegration program for returnees, some of whom were born abroad or have never lived in the country.