The family of a Haitian immigrant is scrambling to identify his whereabouts after being detained and transported by government officials following a DUI arrest. 

Rony Dieujuste has been missing for about a month, following his arrest, according to his partner, Kléya Rice. 

 "It's hard to navigate all of this," Rice told Capital B News in an interview. By "this," she meant the immigration system, which imprisoned Dieujuste after he was stopped by police on his way home on May 30.  Dieujuste was coming from a family member's graduation party in Palm Beach County and suspected of driving under the influence. Since then, Rice and his family have not seen him.

More than 500,000 Haitian immigrants with Temporary Protective Status have been lost in the immigration court system. Haitians with TPS status have until August 3 to reregister, according to government officials.  

 "I didn't know this would be part of my story," Rice told the outlet. 

Deportation threats are not limited to Haitian-born immigrants from West Indian islands living in the United States. A judge ruled in May that Marlon Parris, a Trinidad and Tobago green card holder in the United States since 1997 and an Army veteran, may be deported, according to KJZZ, a local public radio station. Parris served five years in prison for a simple narcotics violation before being freed in 2016, but this initiated his deportation proceedings. 

According to Capital B, Dieujuste was able to finally contact Rice via phone call from an undiscolosed Miami detention prison, and told her that he had been chained with other non-English-speaking, nonwhite men and flown on a Southwest Airlines flight to what he assumed was another detention facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 8. 

Rice told Capital B Dieujuste's immigration attorneysought to organize in-person or video visits, but by the time the appointment was confirmed, he had already been relocated to another facility. 

All of this comes as Dieujuste faces health issues. 

"He has been having nosebleeds for days and hasn't seen a doctor," Rice said. "They are all wearing masks. Other Spanish-speaking detainees have spoken out to activists that their noses had been bleeding for weeks as well.

"I told him to be strong," she told Capital B, "but he's breaking.” "I can hear it in his voice and sense it in his spirit."