The driver of the vehicle in which he and two passengers were killed earlier this month when undocumented Indian migrant Harjinder Singh made an illegal u-turn in an 18-wheeler across the Florida Turnpike in Fort Pierce was himself facing eventual deportation as he was in the US on the temporary protected status program currently facing termination by the Trump Regime, the Miami Herald reports on the likely reason why state and federal officials were slow to publicize his identity.
Two friends of 30 year-old Herby Dufresne, who was killed along with passengers Faniola Joseph, 37, and Rodrigue Dor, 54, tell the Herald that Dufresne had arrived in Florida on the humanitarian parole program in December 2023 but – along with the other two – had moved to Indiana earlier this year. They were headed back north following a shopping trip to their former neighborhood in the Miami area when the minivan Dufresne was driving collided with Singh’s tractor trailer on the 12th.
“He had dreams,” a friend in Haiti told the Herald. “But to be honest, he is someone who always knew he wasn’t going to stay in the US. He said he was leaving, but he would be back.” The friend indicated this was of Dufresne’s own volition rather than the inevitability of deportation after the now-president and vice president spent a good amount of last year’s campaign claiming that Haitian refugees were eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets of “real Americans.”
The Herald closes the article with a gut-wrenching statement on life in 2025 MAGAmerica, writing that nearly three weeks after the crash that none of the victims’ bodies had been claimed by family or a funeral home and that Herby’s mom in Port-Au-Prince, devastated by the loss of her only son, has no means of coming to do so, “due to recently enacted US immigration policies by the Trump administration, banning Haitian nationals without current visas from entering the United States.”
Herby does have at least one sister – and Dor a niece – living in the Miami area however. Yet it’s not hard to imagine they’re staying away from claiming the bodies for fear of ICE stormtroopers waiting for them at the coroner’s office, part of a new local crackdown by convicted felon President Trump and heels-wearing Gov Ron DeSantis’s regimes, spurred by the deaths of their family members.
People who weren’t identified for nearly two weeks because the MAGA narrative was about the driver and Gavin Newsom. Haitian victims would’ve been sand in the outrage cycle’s gears.