Death and fear stalk Haitians in Ohio city amid Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown

Grieving family members pray after the death of Pierre Damas Bel, 20, whose death is being investigated as a possible suicide. Photograph: Carol Guzy/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

For 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel, the humiliation of starting college last month with an electronic ankle bracelet – attached by ICE agents this summer – was deeply traumatic.

“I’m walking through the streets of the United States with a GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined I would experience,” he wrote on Instagram in July.