Springfield, Ohio has been a magnet for Haitian migrants who have overwhelmed the community in recent years but now some of them are looking to get out before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office.
The midwestern city of around 60,000 made headlines after unconfirmed reports that some of the 15,000 to 20,000 Haitians who have been relocated there were stealing and eating residents’ pets, claims that sent the regime media into a frenzy to debunk them.
With Trump having vowed to deport the illegal aliens when he takes office, Haitians who settled in Springfield are reportedly looking to avoid being among those who are rounded up come January and are leaving for safer locations.
Many of the Haitians who settled in Springfield did so under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) permits which Trump said that he would do away with if elected. Now that he’s heading back to the White House, panicked Haitians are moving out.
President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to carry out mass deportations is putting immigrant communities on edge. In Springfield, Ohio, where Trump falsely accused Haitian immigrants of eating pets, many Haitians are leaving the city, fearing they’ll be deported. pic.twitter.com/AnBQUiMnEv
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) November 23, 2024
“I do two jobs to make my business. That’s why I don’t go back to Haiti,” one Haitian told CBS News, saying that she is terrified of the violence in her homeland.
“I’m scared because my business in Haiti was bombed, I lost my mom,” Ketlie Moise said. “Someone come in the business, they shoot my mom with a gun, bomb my business…If I get deportation to go back to Haiti, for me especially, I’m going to die, I’m going to be dead.”
“People are leaving,” Margery Koveleski who has spent years assisting the Haitian newcomers in Springfield told the Guardian.
“Some folks don’t have credit cards or access to the Internet, and they want to buy a bus ticket or a plane ticket, so we help them book a flight,” she said.
“The owner of one store is wondering if he should move back to New York or to Chicago – he says his business is way down,” Koveleski added.
“People are fully aware of the election result, and that is why they are leaving; they are afraid of a mass deportation,” Jacob Payen, of the Haitian Community Alliance (HCA) told the Guardian.
“Several of my customers have left. One guy with his family went to New Jersey; others have gone to Boston. I know three families that have gone to Canada,” he said.
“There’s a fear among the Haitian community that TPS is going to end on 20 January, and I don’t think that is very likely for a number of reasons,” Katie Kersh, a lawyer for the non-profit firm Advocates for Basic Legal Equality said, according to the Guardian.
“The strain any deportation effort would place on an already stretched immigration court system would be significant,” she said.
“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we’re going to start with Springfield and Aurora,” Trump told reporters in September, also referring to the Denver suburb where members of a violent Venezuelan gang took over apartment complexes.
In a recent post to Truth Social, Trump appeared to confirm reports that he would declare a national emergency to deport the illegal aliens allowed into the country under the Biden regime.
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