A looming Supreme Court ruling on protected status concerns leaders of community impacts Published April 30, 2026 10:30AM (EDT) A woman prays during a candlelight vigil for Haitians living in the US under the TPS immigration program in Miami, Florida on February 3, 2026. (Photo by Giorgio Viera / AFP via Getty Images) 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.…