In September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump cast Springfield, Ohio as the star of his mass deportation plans. On 26 July, the day before TPS holders lost their work permits, CBS News reported that ICE was targeting Springfield for a ‘potential arrest and deportation blitz’. Dorsainvil, a former pastor, arrived in Springfield in December 2020 after being threatened for his brother’s political activism. Some people in Springfield suspect that the letter-and-monitor strategy is an attempt to make ICE’s actions less visible. ‘It’s just a different strategy to deport people, and also to let them know that we know where you are, we are coming to get you,’ Mia Perez, a Haitian-American lawyer who works with immigrants in Springfield, told me.