Bring Paul Home
Paul was born to Haitian parents and moved to New York when he was only five years old. Paul grew up with a rich community life in New York—participating in his local church and attending the State University of New York. But in 2021, after 35 years as a New Yorker, Paul was deported to Haiti—a country where he had never set foot—without warning for a decades-old drug conviction.
About Paul Pierrilus
Paul Pierrilus was born to Haitian parents in the French territory of St. Martin and immigrated to the United States when he was five years old. He grew up as a true New Yorker and lived in the U.S. for 35 years as an active member of his community.
Because of punitive immigration laws, an immigration judge ordered Paul to be deported on the basis of a 2003 drug-related conviction that has since been fully and unconditionally pardoned by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. But because Paul could not be returned to Haiti at that time, he was allowed to remain in the United States under an order of supervision that required him to check in with ICE on a regular basis.
Paul complied with this order for almost 15 years until ICE unexpectedly detained him at a check-in during the last days of the Trump administration. His community fought to keep him home, but in the middle of the night in February 2021, ICE put him on a plane to Haiti, a country he had never before set foot in. For the past four years he has been living in hiding, under conditions that are extraordinarily dangerous and inhumane.
Paul’s situation is not only a matter of justice, it is a matter of life and death. Join us in urging President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas to grant humanitarian parole to Paul and bring Paul home!