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The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Reposted by Matt Novak
https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social
Pablo Manríquez
@pabloreports.bsky.social
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel:
https://migrantinsider.com/p/the-lonesome-death-of-daphy-michel
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.
migrantinsider.com
11:02 PM · Mar 13, 2026
@pabloreports.bsky.social
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel:
https://migrantinsider.com/p/the-lonesome-death-of-daphy-michel
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.
migrantinsider.com
11:02 PM · Mar 13, 2026
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
— Pablo ManrÃquez (@pabloreports.bsky.social) 2026-03-14T03:02:03.143Z
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, miss.
Pablo Manríquez
Mar 13, 2026
WASHINGTON — Daphy Michel was 31 years old, she had a brother who loved her, and she had just had her criminal charges thrown out of court. ... Five days later, she was dead at a Pittsburgh bus stop — alone, unresponsive, still wearing her ICE ankle monitor.
Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker living in Washington County, Pennsylvania, was found by maintenance workers on the morning of March 2 at a bus shelter near the Monongahela Incline on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh’s South Side. Pittsburgh Regional Transit police attempted CPR, a defibrillator, and Narcan before transporting her to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. She was later pronounced dead. Cardiac arrest, doctors told her family. An official cause of death from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner is still pending.
She had been released on the streets of Pittsburgh — roughly an hour from her home, in a city unfamiliar to her — by ICE agents five days earlier. ... Her brother, Carlo Michel, a Haitian immigrant living legally in Washington County under Temporary Protected Status, found out his sister was dead when a hospital called to ask if he recognized her name.
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Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, miss.
Pablo Manríquez
Mar 13, 2026
WASHINGTON — Daphy Michel was 31 years old, she had a brother who loved her, and she had just had her criminal charges thrown out of court. ... Five days later, she was dead at a Pittsburgh bus stop — alone, unresponsive, still wearing her ICE ankle monitor.
Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker living in Washington County, Pennsylvania, was found by maintenance workers on the morning of March 2 at a bus shelter near the Monongahela Incline on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh’s South Side. Pittsburgh Regional Transit police attempted CPR, a defibrillator, and Narcan before transporting her to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. She was later pronounced dead. Cardiac arrest, doctors told her family. An official cause of death from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner is still pending.
She had been released on the streets of Pittsburgh — roughly an hour from her home, in a city unfamiliar to her — by ICE agents five days earlier. ... Her brother, Carlo Michel, a Haitian immigrant living legally in Washington County under Temporary Protected Status, found out his sister was dead when a hospital called to ask if he recognized her name.
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