Wealthy states keep accelerating forced returns to countries with no capacity to absorb them, so receiving states lose remittance income exactly as their security situations deteriorate, producing recurring instability that spreads to neighbours and regional trade routes.
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The United Nations told an emergency Security Council session that nearly 200,000 people have been forcibly returned to Haiti this year, a session convened after gangs killed 47 people and abducted more than 50 near Port-au-Prince. Returns at that scale into a state losing territorial control is the precise mechanism the thesis describes: deportation volume rising as absorptive capacity collapses.
Supporting · August 29, 2026
Nearly 200,000 People Have Been Forcibly Returned to Haiti This Year, the United Nations Says
The United Nations told an emergency Security Council session that nearly 200,000 people have been forcibly returned to Haiti this year, a session convened after gangs killed 47 people and abducted more than 50 near Port-au-Prince. Returns at that scale into a state losing territorial control is the precise mechanism the thesis describes: deportation volume rising as absorptive capacity collapses.
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