Former envoy denounces U.S. deportations to Haiti

FILE PHOTO: A U.S. border patrol officer grabs the shirt of a migrant trying to return to the United States along the Rio Grande, after having crossed from the United States into Mexico to buy food, as seen from Ciudad Acuna, in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 19. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. special envoy to Haiti who blasted the Biden administration as he resigned last month over the deportations of hundreds of migrants told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that Washington must rethink its approach to the Caribbean nation.

"Deportation in the short term is not going to make Haiti more stable. In fact, it's going to make it worse," former envoy Daniel Foote told a briefing for the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, where both Democrats and Republicans denounced U.S. policy.