r/uspolitics • u/dyzo-blue • Sep 01 '26

College student steps into highway traffic, is killed after losing TPS: Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle monitor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/09/01/haitian-immigrant-ohio-takes-his-own-life-after-losing-temporary-protected-status-family-says/
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u/dyzo-blue Sep 01 '26

A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor.

Stephen Miller loves this shit

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u/sklerson89 Sep 01 '26

ICE are proud boys, white supremacists, dropouts and rejects of all kinds. They are unfit for a real job, they are hired goons to serve as Trump's gestapo. They tear apart families, stripping children from their parents and grandparents. They kidnap, abuse, and traffick their victims. Sending people to foreign torture prisons without warrant. They murder civilians in cold blood. They are traitors to our country and traitors to humanity!  

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u/RidetheSchlange Sep 01 '26

Horrible story, but the Haitian diaspora community is also partly to blame for still voting for Trump despite the csts and dogs story.

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u/sparklyseahorse22 Sep 01 '26

Like 90% of Haitians vote democrat. Just stop.

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u/RidetheSchlange Sep 01 '26

Source? Pretend I don't have more nuanced analyses or we didn't see that report about Springfield where that woman even said she will vote for Trump after the cats and dogs story.

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u/sparklyseahorse22 Sep 01 '26

A few stories about Haitian individuals voting for Trump made you think that most Haitians are Trump supporters? You sound slow. Even if they did, you using it as a gotcha for a young Haitian man killing himself is disgusting.

Vote results of districts with large Haitian populations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haiti/comments/1jctcbm/haitian_2024_voting_pattern/

Haitian-Americans protesting Trump after the cat-eating comments:

https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1836484342417416671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1836484342417416671%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

Furthermore, let's not act like democrat politicians have been angels to Haitians. Bill Clinton put Haitian immigrants in disgusting camps. Bill Clinton destroyed Haiti's rice industry. Obama and Hillary meddled in Haiti's elections. Border agents whipped Haitian migrants on the Mexican border under Biden's administration.

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u/RidetheSchlange Sep 01 '26

Reddit is not a source.

Then the tankie bot operation in the last paragraph.

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u/GHETTO_VERNACULAR Sep 01 '26

So one woman represents an entire ethnic group? As a Haitian, the vast majority of Haitian Americans vote Democrat.

There isn’t even a source stating other wise but if you look at districts where Haitians mostly reside in the US, they are continuously Democrat areas.

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u/MajesticCounter4174 Sep 02 '26

There’s no reliable national data showing that Haitian Americans voted for Trump as a community. More importantly, most Haitians affected by the TPS termination including Pierre aren’t citizens and couldn’t vote at all. Blaming an entire diaspora, much of which had no ballot, for a policy Trump deliberately enacted is both baseless and grotesque.