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Haitian who just graduated high school takes his own life after losing TPS status, advocacy group says
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating after Pierre Damas Bel, 20, died following the loss of Temporary Protected Status and a federal GPS monitor.
- On Monday, 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide after exiting his Toyota on Interstate 70 in Springfield, Ohio, and walking into westbound traffic. The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating.
- Bel's distress followed the Supreme Court's decision allowing the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, leaving him and more than 350,000 immigrants facing deportation and fitted with a GPS ankle monitor.
- Bel told his father that deportation was "unbearable" and he had struggled since receiving the monitor. A Springfield High School teacher wrote he "adhered to all rules and legal requirements under TPS in good faith."
- Guerline Jozef of the Haitian Bridge Alliance stated the Trump administration's policies "are what caused untimely death," while Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, American Immigration Council, blamed the "obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor."
- Since President Donald Trump began campaigning two years ago, Springfield has been targeted with threats of ICE deportations, while Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin urged Haitians to return to "Home Sweet Haiti" amid gang violence that killed at least 47 people near Port-au-Prince.
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Haitian-born student in Ohio appears to take his own life after losing immigration status
A Haitian-born student in Ohio reportedly took his own life following the loss of his immigration status as part of the Trump administration’s termination of temporary protection status for immigrants around the country. The Ohio State Highway Patrol stated in a Monday press release that 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel died Monday when he walked into…
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Haitian who just graduated high school takes his own life after losing TPS status, advocacy group says
A 20-year-old Haitian who had just graduated high school and had recently lost temporary protected status died by suicide on Monday, according to an advocacy group.
·New York, United States
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