For months, ICE has terrorized members of Springfield’s immigrant community, speeding after vehicles down normally placid streets and causing crashes. Chief among those being targeted are the city’s Haitian community, who began immigrating to the struggling town of 60,000 residents eight years ago to fill hundreds of open blue-collar jobs.
But a supreme court ruling allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitian nationals in July meant they could no longer work legally, and within days, dozens of ICE agents descended on Springfield. In September, Markwayne Mullin, the US homeland security secretary, said 380 people had been detained by ICE agents in Springfield.
I work with several Haitians and constantly worry that I’ll go into work one day and I’ll never see one, or any, of them ever again.
Can’t imagine what it must be like for them
As long as conservatives continue to live, they will continue to oppress everyone around them. Harming the vulnerable is hard-coded into their DNA.
First they came for the Haitians, but I was not a Haitian…
Remember Pastor Niemöller.
There 350.000 Haitians
Stick together strong in numbers
I wonder how many of them voted Trump.
Probably none.
There’s a huge hispanic and black movement for Trump. Or at least there was, idk about the state of things right now
People in the TPS program can’t vote.
