Jessica Orozco

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Orozco |Sydney Dawes

Apr. 18—There are indications that a large number of Springfield's Haitian immigrant population has relocated elsewhere. But after months of harsh scrutiny and facing the threat of deportation from a presidential administration intent on revoking their legal right to stay in the country, the majority appear to be staying put, a Springfield News-Sun investigation found. For now, they have jobs. Their kids are in school. They have access to health care and other services. They have put down roots.

6 days ago | daytondailynews.com | Jessica Orozco |Sydney Dawes

For now, they have jobs. Their kids are in school. They have access to health care and other services. They have put down roots. Explore“They don’t have any reason to leave now because they don’t have any other place to go in the USA where they will not be facing the same issue,” said Vilès Dorsainvil, president of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center. Springfield and Clark County leaders have long estimated that the region is home to 12,000 to 15,000 Haitian immigrants.

1 week ago | springfieldnewssun.com | Jessica Orozco

Its purpose, according to Assistant Springfield Mayor Dave Estrop, who helped form the group, is to get a sense of the local impact of federal cuts. Explore“We’re simply at this point trying to gather this information so that we can put it into some uniform method of informing ourselves in the community about the impact of all of this,” Estrop said.

1 week ago | springfieldnewssun.com | Jessica Orozco

The victim was found in the street on West Grand Avenue with gunshot wounds to his leg, hip and back, according to court records. He was transported to Mercy Health – Springfield before being transferred to Miami Valley Hospital for “serious physical harm injuries.”Detectives learned that a suspect ran to a home on the 100 block of West Grand — about a mile south of downtown Springfield — after the shooting, and later fled after changing to different clothing, according to court records.

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Jessica Orozco

Those permits would have been canceled April 24, but U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said Thursday she would issue a stay on an order for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to leave the country, sparing them until the case advances to the next phase, according to the Associated Press.