A 35-Year-Old American Was Deported to Haiti by Trump
He had never lived before and now is stuck in hiding from criminal gangs.
The Washington Post asked residents from Springfield, Ohio, to send in letters describing how things have changed since Trump and JD Vance turned the small, flourishing town into a movie set for “Trumplandia.”
Locals talk about how cultural events like the annual jazz festival are canceled because “Proud Boys “ and KKK cowards now march around with guns and yelling at immigrants. Haitian children are afraid to go to school.
Trump’s America is dark, hateful, and dystopian.
One man, a 35-year-old from Springfield, was caught in an ICE raid when Trump was moping around the White House whining about his “unfair” election loss in 2020. Here is what he wrote:
As a person of Haitian descent, I know what it’s like to be targeted by Donald Trump’s policies. In the last days of his presidency, I was suddenly locked in immigration detention after living in the United States for more than 35 years, before I was deported to Haiti, a country in which I had never lived.
Now, Mr. Trump is using hateful rhetoric against Haitians in his reelection campaign, after his first administration tried not only to deport people like me, but to revoke citizenship from thousands of nationalized Americans.
Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, just like Haitians in my longtime community of Spring Valley, N.Y., are vital community of our communities. We are fathers, mothers, children and families, some of us fleeing the gang violence and political instability that I now see every day in Haiti, where I have lived in hiding for the past 3½ years (I’m from Springfield).
This man, I assume, was not a documented American citizen but one who had spent his entire life living in our country, giving his energy and passion to become a functioning member of his mid-American community. Donald Trump, a man whose whole life was handed to him by a domineering but wealthy father, who then spent his life cheating everyone who crossed his path, decided that this undocumented American was weak enough to be abused on a whim. In Trump’s world, decisions to get such Haitians and many others expelled from our country are usually made at his rallies when he hears how the gathered racists react.
“I think if they are undocumented, regardless of whether they were born here or not, they should be removed! Send them back.” The crowd leans into his words, absorbs them, and explodes in cheers. “Aha,” Trump thinks, “they liked that line. If they like that, it means they will like me more.”
And so it goes: Trump’s fragile ego is stroked, and the lives of innocent, hard-working Americans are ruined.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance hope to make every town Springfield, where the angry are emboldened by lies and the people they seek to punish live in fear. As someone who has lived through this transformation, trust me: You don’t want to live in Trump’s America (I’m from Springfield).
Trump’s America is dark, hateful, and dystopian. And half our fellow citizens think he is a great, and honorable man.
Your story is heartbreaking to say in the least. I have been studying the history of immigration in this country to find many shocking stories like yours. Immigrants have BUILT this country there is not one highway,railroad or grain of food ever that has not been touched by a immigrant at some point of its existence.Meanwhile my sons friend works with a government program that’s been in affect since World War II where they search the world to find our leading scientists,doctors and engineers. NASA would not be NASA without this immigration program. People choice to not believe me when I tell them some of our brightest doctors are from India,China and Mexico yes Mexico. The last three are from Afghanistan.We are brainwashed and very easily manipulated by racism. Stories like yours need to get out and be told over and over. I’m doing my best in my own capacity in my own community if I could have one wish I would promise to bring you home.