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A federal judge stops some deportations under Title 42; Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte refuses to cooperate with the ICC in its drug war probe.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Ellen Ioanes.

A federal judge weighs in on deportations of Haitian migrants

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• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 86 Haitians on Wednesday under a Trump-era policy. [The Hill / Rafael Bernal]
• The group of migrants was flown back to Haiti, which is in serious political, economic, and environmental turmoil after the assassination of its president, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, and flooding this summer. [NYT / Anatoly Kurmanaev]
• The Haitians were deported under Title 42, which was enacted in March 2020 and allows border officials to deny migrants entry to the US to mitigate the spread of disease, specifically Covid-19. [CNN / Priscilla Alvarez]
• A federal judge suspended the order Thursday, but the Biden administration can appeal that decision (which won’t take effect for another two weeks). Unaccompanied minors are exempt from Title 42, and the new ruling prevents the Department of Homeland Security from expelling families, although it can still turn away single adults. [Politico / Sabrina Rodriguez]
• DHS recently noted Haiti is on the list of countries whose citizens can stay in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to overlapping crises in the island nation, but they must be able to prove they have lived continuously in the United States since July 29, 2021. [DHS]
• Amid the deportations, thousands of Haitian immigrants are still in limbo in Mexico and other Central American countries as they try to make their way to the US. More than 10,000 Haitian migrants are currently sheltering under a border bridge in South Texas, creating an “unprecedented” challenge for US officials. [Washington Post / Arelis R. Hernández and Nick Miroff]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will "die first" before complying with ICC investigation into his war on drugs

• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is refusing to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its investigation into his brutal “war on drugs,” in which Duterte’s government is accused of carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings. [Reuters / Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales]
• “The country will not allow anyone from the ICC to come in and gather information and evidence here in the Philippines,” Salvador Panelo, a lawyer for the president, said Thursday. The country withdrew from the ICC in 2019, after the body began its preliminary investigation into state-sanctioned killings there. [NYT / Jason Gutierrez]
• Duterte’s government admits to about 6,000 killings related to the drug trade, but the ICC prosecutor estimated the actual number to be far larger, between 12,000 and 30,000 from July 2016, the beginning of Duterte’s term, to March 2019. [Washington Post / Regine Cabato]
• The drug war, and Duterte, remains popular in the Philippines despite outcry against the extrajudicial killings. One poll, conducted by Pulse Asia last year, put Duterte's approval rating at 91 percent. [Rappler / Pia Ranada]
• The ICC case could go on for years. And though Duterte’s term ends next year, he plans to run for vice president, potentially extending his reign and avoiding accountability for the killings. [Guardian / Rebecca Ratcliffe]

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