A Haitian couple and their two sons, ages 5 and 3 — the youngest a U.S. citizen — were deported to Haiti on August 27, 2026, after Canadian authorities returned them to the United States. The parents and older son were TPS beneficiaries who had also applied for asylum, with a court hearing scheduled for 2029; fearing detention when Haiti's TPS designation ended on July 27, the family crossed into Canada on August 14 to seek asylum there but was handed back to ICE. ICE held the family at a detention center in New York state, separated the father from his wife and children, and did not allow him to call a lawyer, he told a Human Rights Watch researcher, recalling an ICE officer telling him his youngest son could stay in the United States only in government custody, saying, "You will lose him." The family's flight landed in Cap-Haïtien, where Human Rights Watch researchers were present and documented the reception process; the organization said more than 450 people had been deported to Haiti since July.