EMERGENCY INTERVENTION PLAN — Haiti Faces the July 27 Deadline
348,000 Haitians lost their US work authorization on July 27, 2026 — among them roughly 50,000 American-born children. In Haiti, 1.47 million people are already internally displaced, and 48% of the population faces severe food insecurity. This episode breaks down Collectif 2035's contingency protocol for what could be the country's biggest logistical and humanitarian test of the decade.
We cover: the five reception nodes (Cap-Haïtien, Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes, Miragoâne, Pignon) and why Port-au-Prince remains an unresolved operational gap; the $298-per-person, 90-day cost model — against $17,121, ICE's own official average cost of detention and deportation; why the remittance shock ($345-540 million) hits months before a single person physically returns; and the healthcare "brain gain" narrative, tested against the budget reality of a health ministry that already struggles to pay its current staff.
True to our Blind Spots segment, we don't hide what this plan still doesn't solve — because an unverified number costs more, in the end, than an honest admission of uncertainty.
Full sources and corpus: collectif2035.com
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