SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – As President Donald Trump took the stage for his inaugural address on Monday, some Springfield residents at the center of the debate over immigration watched from inside a local Haitian restaurant.

Just hours after the president’s inauguration, the immediate future suddenly looked far less secure for Haitian immigrants in the southwestern Ohio city.

Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are bracing for the worst as Donald Trump enters office after making them a centerpiece of his re-election campaign. Then-candidate Trump promised "large deportations" from Springfield if elected after repeating his running mate J.

Several minutes into President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on Monday, as he began talking about immigration, Yvena Jean François dug through a desk drawer for a notebook and pen. “We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home