‘Even the nuns are mad’: Catholic sisters are standing for Haitians outside ICE offices

Catholic sisters from multiple orders gathered outside an ICE field office in Blue Ash, Ohio, on a Sunday morning as Haitian immigrants — many from nearby Springfield — reported for check-ins after the Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, a move the Supreme Court allowed to proceed. Roughly 700 supporters lined the street as one man emerged from the office with a GPS tracker on his ankle.

Springfield, where about a quarter of residents are Haitian, became a flashpoint in 2024 after Trump and then-Senator JD Vance amplified false claims that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, drawing white nationalist groups and bomb threats that closed schools. Community organizers, wary after a Minneapolis enforcement surge left two U.S. citizens dead earlier this year, have stockpiled supplies and organized patrols in anticipation of similar action.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson defended the enforcement by email, stating TPS 'was supposed to be temporary' and declining to discuss operations. Religious leaders — including a rabbi, a Baptist minister and a Muslim chaplain — joined the sisters, who argued the policy shift amounts to changing the rules on people who came here through legal channels.

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