The people of Springfield, Ohio, are exhausted. It’s been one hit after another lately.

Some of the trouble started back in 2024, when Donald Trump claimed during a presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in this small blue-collar city were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs.

It was a false, racist rumor, but it thrust the otherwise quiet town into the national spotlight. White supremacists showed up to march. Bomb threats rocked local schools. Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican who was born in Springfield, sent state troopers to protect residents.

Then Trump returned to the White House and began his deportation campaign. His administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain immigrants. That’s a humanitarian designation that allows a person to stay in the United States because their home country is too dangerous for them to repatriate.