As the Trump administration ramps up deportations to Haiti, federal immigration agents have flooded Springfield, Ohio, home to a large Haitian community and target of Trump’s repeated racist attacks. Haitian residents are living in fear as masked ICE agents in unmarked cars snatch community members off the streets. This is Springfield resident Jen Casto addressing the city council during a public comment period on Tuesday.

Jen Casto: “Springfield is afraid, not of crime, but of ICE, afraid of a car in the driveway that is not a neighbor’s, afraid to drop kids at school, afraid to go to work, afraid to sit in a pew on Sunday. That fear is real. It is happening right now. And some of you have decided it doesn’t concern you. That is not good enough anymore. … If you have to talk yourself out of caring when a father is zip-tied in front of his own children, the problem is not empathy; it is you.”