ORLANDO, Fla. – A plane from Haiti with 28 people on board landed at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night.
People who arrived included many young children and were greeted by staff at a staging area.
Kevin Guthrie, Florida’s emergency management director, said on Wednesday the state plans to fly a 60-person plane out of Haiti.
Guthrie also said both the Haitian consulate in Orlando and the government of the Dominican Republic have ignored their request for permission to gain access to landing areas for evacuation flights and personnel.
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A few hours prior, state Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-District 10, held a roundtable with members of Central Florida’s Haitian community.
“Central Florida’s Haitian community can rest assured their congressman will continue to bring this up in the United States Congress and to the administration long and far after this is no longer in the news,” Frost said. “I’m very familiar with this, being someone who has worked with gun violence prevention since I was 15. A similar thing. A shooting happens, everybody cares, but then everybody forgets. You know who doesn’t forget? The community.”
Frost also criticized recent statements made by Gov. Ron DeSantis regarding potential Haitian migrants to Florida. Frost condemned DeSantis’s action to increase border security for a potential influx in Haitians.
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