Like an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants, Pierre Damas Bel had recently lost temporary protected status, which is given to people fleeing nations experiencing disaster. He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. https://wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ
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Haitian leaders in Springfield, Ohio, and beyond said Bel’s death is symptomatic of the extreme stress many immigrants are under as they fear being detained and sent back. Read more here:
wapo.stCollege student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration statusPierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle mo...
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