President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may be poised to target the Ohio city where Trump, then a candidate in 2024, falsely insisted that Haitian immigrants were eating the pets of residents. Local officials are bracing for a 30-day ICE surge, The New Republic reported. Pam Shay, director of federal programs at Springfield City Schools said that about 20 percent of the district’s 1,400 students do not have documents indicating citizenship. The News-Sun also reported that immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status “will no longer have status unless they sought and received another form of protection, like asylum.”In 2024, Trump infamously declared, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs.”“The people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” candidate Trump said at a presidential debate. The claim had already been debunked, including by city officials, as ABC News reported at the time.