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Haitian Gang Member Who Shouted 'Biden Forever' During ICE Arrest Is Deported
Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a Haitian national and documented gang member with 17 criminal convictions, was removed from the U.S. on an ICE flight after 19 months in federal custody, completing a dramatic reversal from his viral 2025 arrest.
A Haitian gang member and illegal alien whose defiant arrest in Massachusetts went viral after he shouted «Biden forever» and vowed he would not be returned to Haiti has been deported by the Trump administration after spending roughly 19 months in federal custody, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed.
Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles was removed on an ICE flight originating in Louisiana, DHS said. The deportation completes a striking reversal from the scene in Massachusetts on Jan. 22, 2025, when ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers took him into custody just days after President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Cameras captured Charles insisting, «I’m not going back to Haiti … you feel me?» before adding an expletive directed at Trump and declaring «Biden forever bro.»
According to DHS, Charles is a member of the Back Block Money Gang and had accumulated 17 criminal convictions. His record included 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.
Charles remained in federal custody for approximately 19 months while his immigration case proceeded. A Department of Justice immigration judge issued a final order of removal on Nov. 7, 2025, according to DHS. Sources said Charles was extremely combative aboard the deportation aircraft and made crude, profane and threatening remarks about President Donald Trump and his family during the flight. An image obtained by Fox News shows Charles aboard the plane; the photo was provided by an ICE source and was not among images officially released by DHS.
DHS publicly announced the deportation after details of the removal were obtained, 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 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 the removal. «Once again: if you’re here illegally, we will find you, arrest you, and remove you from the United States of America,» he said.
DHS said Charles originally received Temporary Protected Status during the Obama administration in February 2013 and was admitted to the U.S. in July of that year. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services terminated his TPS in July 2022, according to the department. The White House separately provided a statement following the 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.»
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. 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 cameras. «I’m not going back to Haiti,» he said at the time. Charles was deported by ICE to Haiti on Thursday, DHS said.
