Ohio Haitian Immigrant Dies by Suicide After Losing Protected Status, Wearing ICE Ankle Monitor
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 1
Ohio Haitian Immigrant Dies by Suicide After Losing Protected Status, Wearing ICE Ankle Monitor
2 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 1
Summary
Pierre Damas Bel was run over and killed in Ohio on Monday in what his family says was a suicide.
Bel had grown increasingly distraught after losing temporary protected status, and relatives said an ICE ankle monitor left him feeling humiliated.
The death follows the Trump administration’s cancellation of protections that had shielded thousands of Haitian immigrants from deportation.
Bel’s case underscores the human toll of tougher immigration enforcement on migrants who had been living in the United States under temporary legal protections.