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EXCLUSIVE: A Haitian gang member and illegal alien who defiantly told Fox News cameras “I’m not going back to Haiti” and shouted “Biden forever” during his viral U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest has been deported to Haiti by the Trump administration after spending 19 months in federal custody.
Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles was deported on an ICE flight originating in Louisiana, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News.
Sources told Fox News that Charles was extremely combative aboard the aircraft and made crude, profane and threatening remarks about President Donald Trump and his family during the deportation flight.
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Haitian illegal immigrant Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles is escorted by federal agents to a plane. Charles was deported by ICE. (Courtesy Department of Homeland Security)
An image obtained exclusively by Fox News shows Charles aboard the plane. The photo was provided by an ICE source and was not included among the images officially released by DHS.
The deportation completes a dramatic reversal from Charles’ arrest in Massachusetts on Jan. 22, 2025, when Fox News cameras captured him insisting he would not be returned to Haiti.
“I’m not going back to Haiti … you feel me?” Charles said during the arrest. “F— Trump,” he added. “Biden forever bro.”
Fox News witnessed the arrest as ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers took Charles into custody in Massachusetts, just days after Trump returned to the White House.
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Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles is seen aboard an ICE deportation flight to Haiti on Sept. 10, 2026. (Courtesy Department of Homeland Security)
DHS identifies Charles as a member of the Back Block Money Gang and says he had accumulated 17 criminal convictions.
His criminal history included convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, possession with intent to distribute a Class D controlled substance, possession of controlled substances, carrying a dangerous weapon, carrying ammunition without a firearm identification card and trespassing, according to DHS.
Charles remained in federal custody for approximately 19 months after his arrest as his immigration case proceeded.
A Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge issued Charles a final order of removal on Nov. 7, 2025, according to DHS.
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Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles sits in a vehicle after being arrested by ICE ERO Boston on Jan. 22, 2025. (Courtesy Department of Homeland Security)
DHS publicly announced Charles’ deportation after Fox News obtained details of his removal, specifically referencing the viral video of Charles praising former President Joe Biden during his arrest.
“This illegal alien gang member from Haiti had quite the rap sheet,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement, citing Charles’ convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest and drug trafficking.
Mullin also criticized the immigration policies of the Obama and Biden administrations and credited the Trump administration with carrying out Charles’ removal.
“Once again: if you’re here illegally, we will find you, arrest you, and remove you from the United States of America,” Mullin said.
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Haitian illegal immigrant Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles is escorted by federal agents to a plane. Charles was deported by ICE. (Courtesy Department of Homeland Security)
DHS said Charles had originally received Temporary Protected Status (TPS) during the Obama administration in February 2013, and was admitted to the U.S. in July of that year, according to DHS.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services terminated his TPS in July 2022, according to DHS.
The White House separately provided Fox News with a statement following Charles’ deportation.
“This gang member and criminal illegal alien loved Obama, Biden, and open-border Democrats who let him enter our country with TPS and allowed him to terrorize American citizens,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said.
“Thanks to the Trump administration, he is now off our streets and back in Haiti,” she continued, while contrasting Trump’s immigration enforcement policies with those of Democrats.
DHS also posted a tongue-in-cheek photo of President Donald Trump at his viral McDonald’s campaign trail stop waving goodbye to accompany the news.
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The deportation came more than a year and a half after Charles predicted the opposite as ICE officers placed him under arrest in front of Fox News cameras.
“I’m not going back to Haiti,” he said at the time.
Charles was deported by ICE to Haiti on Thursday, DHS said.