American voters are watching the comings and goings in the November presidential election very closely. But it turns out they aren't the only ones. The millions of illegal migrants that Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas allowed to flood our country are getting rather nervous because for them, the writing may be on the wall. The Boston Globe ran a feature story this weekend on that subject. They featured an interview with one migrant from Haiti who is scrambling to find some way to secure legal status. Her fear is that she and her daughter could be detained and deported if Trump comes back into power. She should be afraid. And for very good reason.

From her room in the emergency shelter at the former Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, Stephanie Jean has been watching news clips on TikTok with a rising sense of dread: What will happen to her and her 4-year-old daughter, Cricia, if former president Donald Trump is elected in November?

Last week, as the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee seethed with anti-immigrant rhetoric, Jean, a migrant from Haiti, continued her frantic search for a lawyer. As a Haitian who fled violence in her home country, she has temporary permission to be in the United States, but it is set to expire in less than two years. She is determined to apply for a longer-term form of immigration relief; becoming undocumented, she said, is “a huge fear.”

“If we are deported to Haiti, we will die,” said Jean, 29.

At the moment, Stephanie Jean isn't technically in the country illegally. She was one of the huge group of migrants who arrived here without permission from Haiti but was given Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by Biden, shielding her from deportation for 18 months. But that status will expire before Trump takes office. Trump has already suggested that he will severely scale back or even cancel the TPS policy and may even rescind it for some of the migrants that Biden welcomed in. If that's the case, Ms. Jean will be fair game for the mass deportation program.

The Boston Globe was obviously trying to find one of the most sympathetic figures they could for their feature story, painting her as an innocent victim and Trump as a dangerous, bigoted threat to all migrants. She has a baby. She relies on public services to get by. I get it. She's afraid that if she is sent back to Haiti she will die. (Given the state of that bedraggled nation at the moment, it's not an unjustified fear, particularly with the major cities being run by gang leaders such as Barbeque and his cannibal friends.)

But that doesn't mean that everyone gets to automatically stay here permanently and live off of public services for free. Terrible things happen in many terrible countries all of the time. We can't just accept everyone from Haiti and set them up for life. And we certainly can't accept everyone from all around the world who has been flooding across our borders. The system is already collapsing before our eyes. Most of these people are simply going to have to be removed.

For people like Stephanie Jean who come from the worst of the worst places, they don't necessarily have to go back home to Haiti. Has she considered going to Canada? They still have fairly liberal policies in place despite the current resurgence of the conservatives. They also have free, taxpayer-funded healthcare, such as it is. Sure, it's a bit cooler there in the winter, but it's still better than Haiti. The point is that you can't just stay here. If we begin making exceptions for people like her, nobody will wind up leaving. If Trump wins, the deportation train is on the way and it's long overdue. So if the illegal migrants in Boston are going into a panic, there's a good reason for that. Save both yourself and the rest of us the trouble and move on now. As they say in the bars at closing time, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.