Paul Pierrilus was deported two years ago from the U.S. to Haiti where he has been trying to survive in a chaotic and violent country where he wasn’t born and had never lived. Both his parents are Haitian, but he was born in the French Caribbean territory of St. Martin and grew up in New York. He was deported _ after a long delay _ because of a drug conviction two decades ago. Lawyers are still fighting the deportation order, leaving him in a legal limbo as the U.S. steps up deportations to the increasingly unstable country. His case has become emblematic of what some describe as discrimination Haitian migrants face in the overburdened U.S. immigration system.
