Springfield Haitians Surrender Passports and Wear Ankle Monitors After TPS Ends for 330,000
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Updated · Ohio Capital Journal · Aug 13
Springfield Haitians Surrender Passports and Wear Ankle Monitors After TPS Ends for 330,000
3 articles · Updated · Ohio Capital Journal · Aug 13
Summary
About 15,000 Haitians in Springfield are being told to report to ICE offices, hand over passports and leave with ankle monitors after Haitian TPS ended on July 27.
The orders follow the Supreme Court’s June ruling allowing Trump to end protections for 330,000 Haitians and a court decision last week lifting the remaining injunction.
Pastor Carl Ruby said the monitoring push is so far focused on Springfield, even though roughly 30,000 Haitians with temporary status live across central Ohio; return visits are expected every three to four weeks.
Legal advocates said the devices can track wearers within about a 75-mile radius and have caused rashes, sleep disruption and fear, while some migrants cut them off, leave the state or self-deport.
The crackdown comes despite a U.S. Level 4 do-not-travel warning for Haiti and concerns for more than 1,000 U.S.-born children in Springfield with Haitian parents.