斯普林菲尔德，俄亥俄州——皮埃尔·达马斯·贝尔的父亲看着长子的棺木缓缓落入墓穴时，唐纳德·特朗普总统的支持者们正陆续抵达25英里外的一所高中，准备聆听他的演讲。
Mourners blamed Pierre Damas Bel’s death on President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign.
这两场活动——一场笼罩在悲痛之中，另一场洋溢着欢欣——于周六在俄亥俄州西南部相隔数小时内先后举行。它们呈现出特朗普移民打击政策如何影响美国的截然不同的图景。
Trump’s supporters said ICE needs to do more. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — As Pierre Damas Bel’s father watched his firstborn’s casket being lowered into a grave, President Donald Trump’s supporters were arriving to hear him speak at a high school 25 miles away.
对于斯普林菲尔德的 Haitian 社区而言——特朗普在2024年总统竞选期间曾指控他们吃宠物——贝尔是他的大规模驱逐行动的牺牲品。贝尔是一名20岁的大学生，在政府取消允许他和数十万其他 Haitian 人留在美国的临时移民身份后，于8月底走到了一辆卡车前。移民官员给贝尔戴上了脚踝监控器以追踪他的行踪，他写道，这让他感到屈辱。
The two events — one cloaked in anguish, the other jubilant — occurred within hours of each other Saturday in southwestern Ohio. They offered starkly different visions of how Trump’s immigration crackdown is affecting America. To Haitians in Springfield, whom Trump accused of eating pets during his 2024 presidential run, Bel is a casualty of his mass deportation campaign.
“我们的哀悼超越了一个家庭，” Haitian 社区领袖维莱斯·多尔桑维尔在葬礼上对数百人说。“这也是 Haitian 社区和所有移民反思的时刻。”对于特朗普的支持者来说，像贝尔这样的 Haitian 人根本不应该被允许在美国定居，他们是自己选择的受害者。代顿集会上的一些选民表示，总统在移民问题上的强硬政策正是他们所希望看到的，此前拜登政府时期非法移民数量创下了历史新高。
Bel, a 20-year-old college student, stepped in front of a truck in late August after the administration canceled the temporary immigration status that had allowed him and hundreds of thousands of other Haitians to remain in the country. Immigration officers had outfitted Bel with an ankle monitor to track his whereabouts, which, he wrote, made him feel humiliated. “Our mourning extends beyond one family,” Vilés Dorsainvil, a Haitian community leader, told several hundred people at the funeral. “It is also a moment of reflection for the Haitian community and all immigrants.”
“我为他和他的家人感到难过，”62岁的布莱克·马内尔（Blake Marnell）说，他特地从圣地亚哥赶来听特朗普演讲。“我认为他做出那个决定很不幸。但是，如果你是非法居留，你就必须离开。”顾问们曾警告特朗普，在共和党面临失去国会两院控制权风险的情况下，不要谈论他那些具有争议的移民政策。但这位总统在90分钟的演讲中反复强调了这一议题。
To Trump’s supporters, Haitians like Bel should never have been allowed to settle in the United States and are victims of their own choices. Several voters at the rally in Dayton said the president’s hard-line policies on immigration are precisely what they had hoped to see after record-breaking illegal migration under the Biden administration. “My heart goes out to him and his family,” said Blake Marnell, 62, who had traveled from San Diego to listen to Trump speak. “I think it’s unfortunate that he made that decision. But, if you are in the country illegally, you have to go.”
“他们允许2500万人从监狱、精神病院涌入我们的边境，这些人里还有毒贩。如果他们在中期选举中获胜，他们会故技重施，”他声称。这一说法极大地夸大了拜登政府期间越境移民的数量及其来源。
Advisers have warned Trump against speaking about his divisive immigration policies while his party is in danger of losing control of both houses of Congress. But the president leaned into the issue repeatedly during his 90-minute speech.
特朗普在过去三次总统选举中都赢得了俄亥俄州。但今年秋天，民主党人有机会几十年来首次夺回一个参议院席位并赢得州长职位。民调显示，此前稳固的共和党选区现在胜负难料。随着特朗普政府因支持率低迷以及伊朗战争引发的物价上涨而面临不满，这个摇摆州的选民正表现出不再支持共和党的意愿。
“They allowed 25 million people to pour across our border from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers, and if they win the midterms, they will do it again,” he claimed, greatly exaggerating both the number of migrants who crossed the border during the Biden administration and where they came from. Trump won Ohio in the last three presidential elections. But this fall, Democrats have a chance to win back a Senate seat and secure the governor’s office for the first time in decades. Previously reliable red districts are now toss-ups, polls show.
周六的集会在代顿郊区范达利亚的巴特勒高中体育馆举行，吸引了超过4000人参加。场外的商贩兜售着印有“ICE”（美国移民及海关执法局）字样的帽子，以示对该机构的支持。当参议员伯尼·莫雷诺（共和党，俄亥俄州）发言时，一名集会参与者高喊：“把他们全都驱逐出境！”
And voters in the battleground state are signaling a willingness to look past the GOP as the Trump administration grapples with low approval ratings and discontent over rising costs triggered by the war in Iran. The Saturday rally drew more than 4,000 people to the Butler High School gymnasium in Vandalia, a Dayton suburb. Vendors outside sold caps with “ICE” emblazoned across the front in support of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
一些集会者知道贝尔（Bel）去世的消息，另一些人则不知道。几位受访者表示，这并没有改变他们对特朗普移民打击政策的看法。他们认为，任何非法居留的人都应该被驱逐。来自俄亥俄州牛津市的19岁大学生米克·米奇默赫伊曾（Mick Michmerhuizen）表示，移民问题仍然是他最关心的问题。他说，移民及海关执法局的官员本可以做得更多。“他们有权取消临时身份，”他说。
A rallygoer yelled “Deport them all!” as Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) spoke. Some rallygoers knew of Bel’s death. Others did not. Several said it did not change how they viewed Trump’s immigration crackdown. They said anyone who is in the country illegally should be removed. Mick Michmerhuizen, a 19-year-old college student from Oxford, Ohio, said immigration remains his main concern.
特朗普在讲话中提到了斯普林菲尔德，并背诵了民权活动家奥斯卡·布朗二世创作的歌曲《蛇》中的一段歌词。歌中讲述了一名女子因怜悯一条蛇并将其带回家中，最终被蛇咬死的故事。自2016年以来，特朗普已在多次集会上讲述过这个故事，而这一次，他将拜登政府期间定居在斯普林菲尔德的1.2万多名海地人比作了那条蛇。“结果并不怎么好，”他说。
He said ICE officers could be doing more. “They have the right to take temporary status away,” he said. Trump brought up Springfield during his remarks and recited a version of “The Snake,” a song by civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr. in which a woman dies after being bitten by a snake on which she took pity and invited into her home. The president has told the story at multiple rallies since 2016, this time casting the more than 12,000 Haitians settled in Springfield during the Biden administration as the snake.
当天早些时候，在圣约翰传教浸信会教堂的圣殿内，哀悼者们表示，像贝尔这样的海地新移民实际上为这座日渐衰落的“铁锈地带”城市带来了希望。
“It didn’t work out too well,” he said.
“你们是社区的祝福，而不是负担，”卡尔·鲁比牧师说。“我们不希望你们被强行带走。”
Inside the sanctuary of St. John Missionary Baptist Church earlier that day, mourners said Haitian newcomers like Bel had, in fact, brought hope back to a flagging Rust Belt city. “You are a blessing, not a burden, to our community.” pastor Carl Ruby said.
鲁比表示，贝尔的故事与另一位年轻人的遭遇如出一辙，而那名年轻人的死曾推动了民权运动的发展。“事实是，就像埃米特·蒂尔一样，皮埃尔·达马斯死于一个种族化体制的重压之下，这个体制没能给予他平等的自由与正义。”超过250名亲友参加了追悼会，人们在会上深情地讲述了这位年轻人慷慨勤奋的一生。他曾帮助继母填写求职申请，为父亲翻译电子邮件，是弟弟妹妹们的榜样。发言者还呼吁立法，恢复海地人的临时保护身份。
“We do not want you to be ripped away.”Ruby said Bel’s story echoes that of another young man whose death helped fuel the civil rights movement. “The truth is that like Emmett Till, Pierre Damas died under the weight of a racialized system that did not provide him with equal liberty and equal justice.”More than 250 family members and friends attended the service, in which people shared emotional testimonies about a young man who they said was generous and hardworking. He helped his stepmother fill out job applications, translated emails for his father and was an example to his younger siblings.
投影仪滚动播放着贝尔短暂一生的放大照片，其中包括一张他身穿宝蓝色毕业袍、头戴学士帽、佩戴荣誉饰带的微笑照片。同一张毕业照也被印在了他金色的棺木上。
Speakers also advocated for legislation to reinstate temporary protected status for Haitians. A projector scrolled through enlarged images of Bel’s brief life, including a smiling photo of him in his royal blue cap and gown adorned in honor cords.
在教堂门厅里，家属们装裱了贝尔惨死后留下的沉重遗物：一个破损的钱包、变形的身份证件，以及被路面磨损的手机残骸。这些物品被摆放在几封支持信旁边，信中称赞了他为移民案件所展现出的高尚品格。
The same graduation image was overlaid across his golden coffin. In the church foyer, the family had framed grim artifacts of Bel’s violent death: a ripped wallet, warped identification cards and the road-scarred remnants of his mobile phone.
贝尔于2024年来到美国与父母团聚，他的父母三年前逃离了海地。美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）表示，记录显示他是通过CBP One进入美国的，这是拜登政府为移民设立的移动应用程序，旨在让移民在入境口岸申请庇护。他的父亲说，他后来获得了临时保护身份，并于5月以优异成绩从高中毕业，还是初级预备役军官训练营（JROTC）的一名自豪成员。
They were arranged next to letters of support from people extolling the virtues of his character for his immigration case. Bel came to the U.S. in 2024 to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. ICE said its records show he entered through CBP One, the mobile app the Biden administration established for immigrants to enter the country at a port of entry and request asylum.
贝尔已经注册入读莱特州立大学，并在7月下旬写信给学校管理人员，希望获得他们帮助以取得学生签证。他当时还有一份待处理的庇护申请。在最高法院允许特朗普政府继续取消保护海地人免遭驱逐出境的临时保护措施后，他被戴上了电子脚镣。
He was later granted temporary protected status and graduated from high school in May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, his father said. Bel had enrolled at Wright State University and in late July wrote administrators hoping for their help in obtaining a student visa. He also had a pending asylum application.
“我来到这个国家是为了追求学业。我不是来犯罪或伤害任何人的，”他在Instagram上写道。“然而现在，我却戴着GPS监控器走在美国的街头，承受着我从未想象过会经历的羞耻和屈辱。”共和党籍州长迈克·德瓦恩（Mike DeWine）即将于1月卸任，他在追思会期间全程在场，现场不时传出阵阵啜泣声。亲属们形容贝尔具备了该国长期以来所珍视的移民品质——坚毅、正直和勤奋。
He was outfitted with an ankle monitor after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with canceling temporary protections shielding Haitians from deportation. “I came to this country to pursue my education. I didn’t come here to commit a crime or hurt anyone,” he wrote on Instagram. “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.”Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican who is term-limited and leaves office in January, sat through the service as sobs erupted sporadically during the remembrances.
“我们需要像皮埃尔·达马斯·贝尔这样的人，”德瓦恩在接受采访时说。他曾称总统终止海地人临时保护身份（TPS）的决定是一个错误。“这不仅是一场个人悲剧，也是我们国家的悲剧。”在集会现场，听说贝尔死讯的与会者表示，他们认为不应将此事归咎于特朗普的移民打击政策。
Relatives described Bel as possessing the attributes — grit, integrity and work ethic — that have long been valued of immigrants to this country. “We need people like Pierre Damas Bel,” DeWine, who has called the president’s decision to terminate TPS for Haitians a mistake, said in an interview. “This is a personal tragedy, but it is also a tragedy for our country.”Back at the rally, attendees who had heard of Bel’s death said they did not believe Trump’s immigration crackdown should be blamed.
“我不知道他佩戴电子脚镣与他自杀之间是否存在确切的关联，”来自俄亥俄州特洛伊市的雪莉·福斯特说。“有支持系统且理智的人是不会自杀的。”贝尔的父亲自从儿子去世后就再也没有睡过床。他在葬礼上宣读的一份声明中写道，他躺在家里的地板上，以此作为一种忏悔。他说，他所感受到的只有空虚。
“I don’t know that there’s an exact correlation between him wearing an ankle monitor and him taking his own life,” said Sherrie Foster, of Troy, Ohio. “Logical people that have a support system don’t take their own life.”Bel’s father hasn’t slept in a bed since his son died. He lies on the floor of his home as a penitence of sorts, he wrote in a statement read during the funeral. All he feels, he said, is emptiness.