Bodies of hatian immigrants deported by ice were found decapitated
Executive summary
Reporting from multiple outlets says four Haitian women were found killed and decapitated near the Dominican Republic–Haiti border, and local sources and community leaders told reporters that at least some of those women had earlier been deported from Puerto Rico or the United States; however, the documentation directly tying ICE deportation flights to those specific victims is limited in the available reporting and there is no public ICE press release in the provided sources confirming ICE removed these particular women [1]. Broader coverage shows an accelerated U.S. deportation effort to Haiti in 2025 and longstanding concerns about the risks deportees face on return, which frames why advocates tie deportations to the killings even when direct federal confirmation is absent [2] [3] [4].
1. The core claim: four Haitian women found decapitated after recent deportations
A report in Latin Times states Dominican authorities discovered four Haitian women killed and later decapitated near the south border with Haiti, and that local investigators believe the bodies were carried by a river to the discovery site; that same report relays community leader Leonard Prophil’s account that one woman was deported two months earlier and three others were deported about three months earlier, and mentions an arrest of a Haitian man alleged to be connected to the killings [1].
2. What federal records and ICE statements in these sources do — and do not — show
The provided ICE press release and other federal documentation in the source set do not include a direct, corroborating public statement from ICE explicitly listing those four women as recent ICE deportees or linking specific removal flights to the case described in Dominican media; the ICE material in the dataset instead documents other detainee deaths and routine reporting obligations for in‑custody deaths [5] [6]. In short, the claim that the decapitated bodies were of “Haitian immigrants deported by ICE” rests primarily on local reporting and eyewitness or community-leader testimony in the sources provided, not on an explicit ICE confirmation within this set [1] [7].
3. Corroborating context: intensified deportations and documented returns to Haiti in 2025
Independent international coverage and Haitian press in 2025 document deportation flights from the U.S. to Haiti and note an uptick in removals under the cited administration, including groups flown to Cap‑Haïtien and arrivals from Puerto Rico and the continental U.S., which establishes that deportations were occurring at scale around the same period cited by community sources [3] [2]. This pattern underpins advocates’ argument that deportations have placed vulnerable people back into dangerous conditions [4].
4. Why advocates and local leaders link deportations to violence on return
Community leaders quoted in reporting argue that returning migrants face gang violence, kidnapping-for-ransom, and chaos in Haiti and the border area with the Dominican Republic, and they warn that deportation can amount to “condemning them to death”; those claims are presented as firsthand impressions and as a policy critique rather than as forensic proof tying deportation flights to the specific homicides in question [1] [8].
5. Alternative viewpoints, official actions, and investigative gaps
Official agencies and international observers often emphasize that individual criminal investigations must determine culpability; the Dominican authorities’ arrest of a suspect is referenced in the reporting but does not, by itself, establish a causal chain from U.S. deportation policy to the murders [1]. The sources here also show other high‑profile detainee deaths and contested official narratives about custody deaths, which feed distrust of government accounts but are separate incidents that do not prove the decapitation victims were on ICE flights [5] [7] [9].
6. Bottom line and limits of the record
The available reporting documents that four Haitian women were found killed and decapitated in the Dominican Republic and that local leaders reported those women had been deported from Puerto Rico or the U.S.; however, within the provided sources there is no independent federal confirmation or flight manifest publicly cited that unambiguously identifies those victims as ICE deportees, so the claim is supported by local reporting and advocacy testimony but lacks incontrovertible documentary proof in this set [1] [3] [2]. Additional verification would require official Dominican investigative findings linked to flight records or an ICE statement tying those specific removals to the victims.