Haitian college student dies after losing TPS status, family attributes death to immigration policy

In the final weeks of August 2026, a twenty-year-old Haitian college student named Pierre Damas Bel walked into traffic on an Ohio interstate and died — a death his family and community trace directly to the weight of an ankle monitor he was required to wear after the Trump administration ended Haiti's temporary protected status. He had come to America seeking education and belonging, had earned honors and dreamed of playing college soccer, and had written publicly about the shame of being marked as a criminal when he had done nothing wrong. His death arrives as a quiet but devastating questio