“Now we have no protection,” said Vilès Dorsainvil, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield. But Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last week that operations targeting Haitian TPS holders were underway. Springfield drew national attention after President Donald Trump baselessly accused Haitians there of eating pets during a campaign debate in 2024. And some have speculated that the Midwestern city and its some 15,000 Haitians residents would be a focus of arrests after TPS ended. The ankle monitors are part of a frequently used ICE program known as “alternatives to detention.”