Emergency Red Wie & Blue: ICE is going after Springfield, another vulnerable community

It’s being reported that ICE’s next surge will be in Springfield, Ohio – the same small town Trump and J.D. Vance viciously lied about during the 2024 presidential campaign.

As an Ohio mom, after seeing everything that’s happened in Minneapolis, Portland, Charlotte, and other cities, I’m scared, angry – and ready to fight like hell for my neighbors.

Federal agents are expected to arrive in Springfield for a 30-day surge on Feb. 4.Springfield is home to 15,000 Haitian immigrants — 25% of the local population — who are on “temporary protected status” because Haiti is too dangerous. They are contributing immensely to the local economy and Haiti is more dangerous than ever, but that status expires on Feb. 4, which is why ICE is planning to head to Springfield.

We’ve seen enough of these ICE surges in other cities to know that our neighbors need our love and support – and we need to act quickly to stay ahead of this. We’re coming together to support Springfield and demand that ICE stops terrorizing our communities everywhere.

Join us with our partners on Tuesday, February 3 at 8:30 pm ET for our Emergency Meeting: Unite for Springfield – ICE Out of Our Communities.

We’ll talk about lessons learned from Minneapolis and other cities and how we can use those lessons to prepare. We’ll hear exactly what’s happening on the ground in Springfield right now – schools are bracing and churches are organizing – and how we can help.

We’ll also hear from experts about what’s happening in the courts. A U.S. district court judge could rule by February 2 to keep Temporary Protected Status for Haitians – but the Trump administration could appeal the decision or ignore it. We’ll make sense of it all.

Springfield, OH is familiar to all of us because in September 2024, while campaigning, Donald Trump and JD Vance peddled hateful lies about the Haitian community and extremists jumped on board. City buildings, grocery stores, and schools received bomb threats. Kids were evacuated and sent home. Children and families were put in danger.

Nearly 5,000 of you signed up for our emergency Unite for Springfield event then, and in just 48 hours, we raised $120,000 for the Haitian Community Help and Support Center and Springfield City School District.

We need to take action again. 

On Tuesday, we will raise awareness about what’s actually happening in Springfield and learn how we can fight back. 

Haitian immigrants fled their home country to escape gang violence, hunger, and instability. It is too dangerous for them to return, where they may be kidnapped, tortured, attacked, or killed. They bravely came to Ohio to start new lives. We will bravely stand with them against this new terror.

The coming weeks will not be easy for our communities, especially Springfield, but we will look out for each other. All families deserve to be safe and whole. We’ve spread the truth about our Haitian neighbors and rejected extremists’ attacks before, and we will do it again.

Thank you for caring, and standing with us. There are more of us than them.

See you Tuesday.