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Haitian immigrants fear uncertain future in Trump’s America

A looming Supreme Court ruling on protected status concerns leaders of community impacts

Published April 30, 2026 10:30AM (EDT)

The air in Springfield, Ohio carries an unsettling quality these days. For almost two years, the post-industrial community has grappled with the potential loss of a sizeable portion of its population and workforce. That tension only grows more palpable as the Trump administration targets the status of many of the 15,000 Haitian immigrants within the city limits and the hundreds of thousands more beyond it.

In some ways, it’s become a new normal for Haitian Springfielders to anticipate the worst, and for their neighbors to fight against a government they see as threatening to rip their families apart. Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of Haitian Community Support Center, calls it a lasting trauma that the immigrant population and their children will carry with them beyond this administration.

“Folks are still trying to deal with the fact that they do not have any stability here,” Dorsainvil told Salon. His organization helps community members pay for housing, utilities and legal fees, access transportation and receive interpretation assistance while advocating for immigration reform. “They know that they are not stable. They know that something can happen that can cause them to be removed or to be deported or to be detained. It affects not only the daily lives of folks, but also creates some type of trauma for the folks trying to cope with these unsettling circumstances.”

Some 350,000 Haitian immigrants hold temporary protected status, a legal designation for those whose home country isn’t safe for them to return to that allows them to live and work in the U.S. for renewable periods of up to 18 months. With the Supreme Court set to rule on the life of TPS for Haitians this summer, Haitian community leaders, though hopeful, remain unsure of what the future will hold........

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