Stateless man avoids deportation to Haiti Arelis R. Hernández, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail For the second time in his stateless life, Paul Pierrilus faced the possibility this week of being deported to a country that he has never known, that he has never lived in and that has never recognized him. The 40-year-old New York man was minutes away from boarding one of the last deportation flights of the Trump administration before a relentless international effort by his family, his attorney and a fortuitous connection to a freshman U.S. congressman helped him evade removal. Immigration attorneys and advocates say chartered deportation flights continued uninterrupted until the last hours of Donald Trump's presidency, sending dozens of immigrants like Pierrilus to nations they scarcely know or fled decades earlier.