Urgent: Protect Springfield’s Haitian Community and Oppose ICE Intervention

I am writing to you today as a concerned resident of Dayton and a constituent who cares deeply about the stability and humanity of our region. I am contacting you to express my fierce opposition to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Ohio and to plead with you to use every power at your disposal to protect the Haitian community in Springfield. The Haitian residents of Springfield are our neighbors, our coworkers, and members of our churches and schools. They are legally present under federal statuses such as Temporary Protected Status (TPS), having fled violence and instability to build peaceful lives here in the Miami Valley. The threat of ICE raids or federal intervention does nothing to solve local challenges; instead, it terrorizes families, destabilizes our local workforce, and sows division in a community that is already healing. I am begging you to stand up for Ohio’s autonomy and humanity. Please do not allow federal agencies to turn our communities into zones of fear. I urge you to: Publicly and formally oppose any federal plans to deploy ICE assets to Springfield or the surrounding Miami Valley region. Refuse state cooperation with federal mass deportation efforts that target legal immigrants and asylum seekers. Direct state resources toward humanitarian support, language services, and community integration in Springfield, rather than policing and enforcement. History will remember who stood by their neighbors when they were vulnerable. Please show that Ohio is a place of welcome and safety, not persecution.