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'Terrified' immigrants face excruciating choice as Trump admin turns up the heat

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With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday. Without legal status, their work permits become invalid. They also face being forced to return to a nation that the International Rescue Committee says is “ in the grip of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis .” Right now, gangs control Haiti. Kidnapping, murder, and rape are rampant. And the pastor, Carl Ruby, said one Springfield 12-year-old faces having to return to a place where he saw animals feeding on murdered corpses when he was just five. ‘Thousands of people are now going to die violent deaths,’ says attorney for Ohio Haitian community “They’re just terrified for their physical safety,” Ruby said during a virtual press conference. “Many of them have already been traumatized… Some of them have been in prison. Some of them have been tortured. Some have been beaten. Some had been raped.

First report: Ohio Haitians lose jobs, face terror — and impossible choices — floridaphoenix.com, 12d