Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is voicing concerns that if President Donald Trump moves forward with deporting Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is set to expire, numerous jobs will remain “unfilled.”
Breitbart News reported last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that TPS will terminate for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants in February 2026—stripping them of their legal authorization to stay in the United States.
DHS officials are encouraging Haitians with TPS to voluntarily leave the country before facing arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
In an interview with local Ohio media, DeWine expressed concern that DHS’s potential deportation of Haitian migrants—especially from Springfield, Ohio, where the Haitian population has surged dramatically—will result in vacant American jobs.
“Some of the economic progress that Springfield has made would go away,” DeWine said, according to Cleveland.com.
“Employers tell me many of these, maybe most of these Haitians working there will no longer be legal,” DeWine added. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”
As independent investigations have uncovered, a combination of TPS for Haitians, President Joe Biden’s mass migration policies, and record-breaking levels of illegal immigration contributed anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 Haitian migrants to Springfield’s resident population.
America First means jobs go to Americans first, not endless extensions of so called temporary programs that quietly displace local workers and demographically transform entire communities without voter consent.
Chamber of Commerce-owned Republicans like Mike Dewine actively facilitate this process, which shows the need for a total clean up of both sides of the aisle.
