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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…
