A person enters the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, March 10, 2024.

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A person enters the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Odelyn Joseph/AP

MIAMI — A constitution flight carrying dozens of U.S. residents fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti landed Sunday in Miami, U.S. State Department officers stated.

More than 30 U.S. residents have been on the government-chartered flight, officers stated in an announcement. It arrived within the Miami International Airport after the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince earlier this month urged U.S. residents to depart “as soon as possible” as chaos grips Haiti.

Passenger Avlot Quessa, who lives in Boston, traveled from the middle of the nation to board the constitution flight after going to Haiti final month for was speculated to be a weeklong journey to go to his mom.

“It’s just terrible … The suffering, you can only imagine,” Quessa instructed the Miami Herald of the close by Caribbean nation. “Haiti is my homeland and it’s very stressful to see the homeland going through this act of violence, destruction … and they are our neighbors.”

Haiti’s most important airport in Port-au-Prince stays closed following gang assaults which have raged by Haiti in latest weeks, pushing many individuals to the brink of famine. Government and help companies this weekend reported looting of help provides because the scenario worsened.

The State Department introduced Saturday that it might supply restricted constitution flights for American residents from the much less chaotic northern metropolis of Cap-Haïtien.

Officials stated they may not present floor transportation to Cap-Haïtien and that U.S. residents ought to contemplate the constitution flights “only if you think you can reach Cap-Haïtien airport safely.”

“We encourage U.S. citizens still in Haiti who seek to depart to contact the Department of State using the crisis intake form on our website if they have not already done so,” the company stated.

People taking the U.S. government-coordinated flights should signal a promissory invoice agreeing to reimburse the federal government.

Another passenger on Sunday’s flight, Marie Lucie St. Fleur, 69, of West Palm Beach, stated she feels most at house in Haiti and it pains her to see what her homeland is enduring.

“I don’t feel well at all. I would like to live in my country and I can’t,” she stated whereas sitting in a wheelchair.

The State Department stated authorities officers in Miami have been serving to the newly arrived evacuees to find out their subsequent steps.

The U.S. navy final week flew in further forces to bolster security on the U.S. Embassy, which is in a neighborhood largely managed by gangs.