Pierre Toussaint, an immigrant from Haiti, was a devout and celebrated Roman Catholic. Mr. Vance may find much to emulate in his life story.

Focus on the fate of Israel, its hostages in Gaza and the people of Gaza and south Lebanon means that little attention is being paid to other continuing crises around the world—Sudan, Haiti, Myanmar among them.

I am ashamed to say it, but Trump’s claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets reminds me so much of the way Haitians are treated in my home country, the Dominican Republic.

In the debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Trump claimed without evidence that members of an Ohio city’s growing Haitian community were “eating cats; they’re eating dogs … they’re eating pets.”

While some children have been evacuated from conflict, more than 1.1 million children in Gaza and 3.7 million in Haiti have been left behind to face the rampaging adult world around them.

Jean Denis Saint-Félix, S.J.: “Nobody wants to stay in this hell. People are seeking ways to enter, no matter how, the United States,” even “knowing the danger and risks they go through.”