The Ohio cities of Columbus and Springfield are bracing for impact after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump can end legal status for Haitians who’ve fled the violence in their home country.
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its plans to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that opens them up to deportation.
About 45,000 Haitians in Ohio are waiting nervously as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a Trump-administration move to force them back to their homeland. As they do, a new assessment says that conditions in Haiti are about as bad as anywhere in the world.
Hundreds of Ohioans at a church in Springfield last Monday morning called for an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians that had been set to expire Tuesday.
Fortified with work authorizations and a new freedom, Haitian immigrants are moving out of their longtime strongholds in Florida and New York, often finding good jobs while remaining wary of how they will be received in new places in the Midwest and South.
