2026年9月2日 / 美国东部时间下午3:41 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
据贝尔的家人和当地维权人士介绍，20岁的海地裔皮埃尔·达马斯·贝尔是俄亥俄州斯普林菲尔德市一名优秀的学生和足球运动员。他还曾参加过高中的初级后备军官训练团项目。
其家人表示，贝尔于周一自杀。贝尔的父亲称，今年初夏移民海关执法局（ICE）给儿子戴上脚环后，儿子陷入绝望和羞辱感，这在一定程度上导致了他的死亡。
“我的儿子戴上脚环后，感觉自己被当作动物一样对待，”贝尔的父亲在一份声明中说道。
贝尔的父亲表示，儿子曾要求移民海关执法局摘除脚环，因为他觉得在大学同学面前佩戴脚环“尴尬”且“羞耻”。
俄亥俄州州警表示，贝尔将车停在斯普林菲尔德郊外一条高速公路的右侧路肩，随后走进了来车车道。他被一辆牵引式挂车撞倒。
“贝尔当场因致命伤势不治身亡，”俄亥俄州州警在一份声明中称，目前这起死亡事件仍在调查中。
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在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中，移民海关执法局表示，该局于7月29日“在他的移民诉讼程序仍在进行期间”为贝尔佩戴了脚环。
移民海关执法局还证实，贝尔于2024年根据当时已废止的拜登时代一项计划获得许可入境美国，该计划允许在墨西哥等候的移民通过一款名为“CBP One”的智能手机应用程序申请入境时间。
该机构驳斥了“任何将贝尔的死亡归咎于移民海关执法局的企图”。
“没有人必须非法留在美国并佩戴GPS监控器，”移民海关执法局在声明中补充道。“非法外籍人士拥有合法且自愿的选择：他们可以通过CBP家庭自助遣返程序自行离境。符合条件的参与者将获得政府安排的回国航班和一张3000美元的支票。”
贝尔在最近的一条Instagram帖子中写道，他来美国并非“为了犯罪或伤害任何人”。
“但如今我却带着腿上的GPS监控器走在美国的街道上，背负着我从未想过会体验到的羞耻和屈辱感，”他在那条帖子中写道。
在联邦政府终止海地移民的临时保护身份计划后，移民海关执法局开始为像贝尔这样的海地移民佩戴脚环。在最高法院一项裁决后，超过30万名海地人于7月底失去了临时保护身份，一夜之间面临被捕和可能被驱逐的风险。
据一名与贝尔家人保持联系的海地裔美国活动人士透露，贝尔曾是临时保护身份的受益人。
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Family blames suicide of 20-year-old Haitian immigrant on ICE crackdown
September 2, 2026 / 3:41 PM EDT / CBS News
Twenty-year-old Haitian native Pierre Damas Bel was an outstanding student and soccer player in Springfield, Ohio, according to his family and local advocates. He had also been part of his high school’s junior ROTC program.
On Monday, Bel died by suicide, his family says, a death his father said was driven, at least in part, by feelings of despair and humiliation after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fitted him with an ankle monitor earlier this summer.
“After my son was outfitted with an ankle monitor, he felt like he was treated like an animal,” Bel’s father said in a statement.
Bel’s father said his son asked ICE to remove the ankle monitor because he felt “embarrassed” and “humiliated” wearing it in front of his classmates in college.
The Ohio Highway Patrol said Bel parked his car on the right shoulder of a highway outside of Springfield and walked into oncoming traffic. He was struck by a tractor-trailer.
“Bel succumbed to fatal injuries at the scene,” the Ohio Highway Patrol said in a statement, noting the death remains under investigation.
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In a statement to CBS News, ICE said it fitted Bel with an ankle monitor on July 29 “while he continued in his immigration proceedings.”
ICE also confirmed Bel entered the U.S. with the government’s permission in 2024 under a now-defunct Biden-era program that allowed migrants waiting in Mexico to request a time to enter the country through a smartphone app known as CBP One.
The agency rejected “any attempt to blame ICE for the death.”
“No one is required to stay in the United States illegally and wear a GPS monitor,” ICE added in its statement. “Illegal aliens have a lawful, voluntary option: they can self-deport through the CBP Home app. Eligible participants receive a government-arranged flight home and a $3,000 check.”
Bel wrote in a recent Instagram post that he had not come to the U.S. “to commit a crime or hurt anyone.”
“Yet now 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 in that post.
ICE started placing ankle monitors on Haitian immigrants like Bel after the federal government terminated their deportation protections under the Temporary Protected Status program. Following a Supreme Court ruling, more than 300,000 Haitians lost their TPS protections in late July, becoming eligible for arrest and potential deportation overnight.
Bel had been a recipient of TPS, according to a Haitian American activist who is in touch with the family.
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