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

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

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.

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.