Despair Under a Tracking Device: A Haitian Student’s Ohio Tragedy
The New York Times reports on Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian student in Springfield, Ohio, who wore an ankle monitor as part of a Trump-era immigration crackdown; his family says the device and his precarious legal status fed humiliation and despair, leading to an apparent suicide after he stepped into traffic, highlighting the human toll of aggressive immigration enforcement.