CBS Outdoor yanks controversial Times Square ad calling for end to Haiti deportations due to cholera

CBS has yanked a Times Square Jumbotron ad that called for a stop to Haiti deportations because it was "too controversial," says the group paying for the ad.

The Center for Constitutional Rights launched an email campaign this week calling on CBS Outdoor to explain its position.

"We were totally taken aback that there was pushback on this. Totally," Annette Warren Dickerson, the group's director of education and outreach, said Tuesday.

"It was a huge letdown. I would just like to know why."

The ad contains a slogan in block letters: "The cholera epidemic in Haiti is killing thousands. Why is the USA still deporting people to Haiti?"

"One deportee has already died," the ad says, showing a photo of 34-year-old Wildrick Guerrier, who died with cholera-like symptoms in January, nine days after being deported because of his criminal record.

Guerrier served probation for battery on a Florida cop and was later convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm while working as an armed security guard.

Dickerson said she isn't sure when the 15-second video, which was slated to run once an hour on a 42nd St. screen, first went up and how many times it was played.

She got an email from the marketing firm, Neutron Media, saying, "The CBS censors have pulled down your creative for being too controversial."

CBS Outdoor did not return a request for comment.

When Homeland Security decided to resume deporting Haitians this year, immigrant advocates and human rights groups were outraged, saying conditions in Haitian police stations are unsafe and unsanitary.

The feds maintain deportations of convicted criminals to Haiti are necessary because they can't keep people in detention here indefinitely and don't want to let them free.