Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio<\/a>, became a particular target of the administration during the 2024 campaign, when Trump spread fictional rumors that Haitians there were eating people\u2019s cats and dogs. There is no evidence to support those claims.<\/p>\nStill, the community has been under intense pressure ever since, said Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s ruling added to the panic and chaos. People don\u2019t know if they should withdraw all their money from the bank, Dorsainvil said. They don\u2019t know if they can work, if their kids can go to school. Many are making preparations to leave their children who are U.S. citizens behind if they are sent away.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a Haitian, I always say that life has not been easy for us, nothing has been easy for us and this is another chapter in our life. And we\u2019ve been in that type of situation since after the presidential campaign when they came up with that type of conspiracy theory of us eating cats and dogs,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been targeted. We\u2019ve been in the spotlight for their political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dorsainvil said he\u2019s focused on trying to keep people calm, telling them not to panic, not to feel hopeless or make desperate decisions that could further jeopardize them and their children.<\/p>\n
On Thursday morning, a Haitian mother of a 17-month-old baby boy who lives in Florida woke up to the news. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was reading it and I just for a moment there I just felt like I couldn\u2019t breathe, like as if something was just sitting on my chest, like my lungs couldn\u2019t extend,\u201d the 37-year-old said, her voice breaking.<\/p>\n
She asked not to be identified for fears of being detained and deported.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not expect this. It is so hard to accept. Maybe I am in denial but I think this can\u2019t be real,\u201d she said. \u201cI had so much hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
She arrived in the U.S. in 1995 when she was 7 years old and gradated from high school here. But she could not go to college because she did not have legal status. <\/p>\n
But in 2010 everything changed, when the U.S. granted Haitians protection after a catastrophic earthquake. The U.S. repeatedly extended that amid the gang violence that has consumed the country and displaced more than a million people.<\/p>\n
The Florida woman applied, and she was able to go to school and become a nurse.<\/p>\n
She was supposed to begin a new job in two weeks. Now she doesn\u2019t know if she\u2019s authorized to work.<\/p>\n
TPS holders are overrepresented in caregiving roles, and the long-term care industry, like nursing homes and facilities for disabled people, industry groups said, could be hit particularly hard as fear and uncertainty ripples across America.<\/p>\n
The nurse in Kentucky said she\u2019s trying to focus on her work taking care of disabled people. But it\u2019s hard to not think of the worst-case scenario, imagining being separated from her children, who are ages 13, 12, 8, and 2, and being sent to her home country that she left more than two decades ago. She reads in the news that there are gang wars, kidnappings, killings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to go there. I am very Americanized,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like someone saying, hey, do you want to go live in a horror movie? Like, you know, no, I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Aftoora-Orsagos reported from Springfield, Ohio. Associated Press writer Claire Galforo contributed from Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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