Alejandro Mayorkas looked into the camera and told America that Springfield, Ohio had "blossomed" because of Haitian migration.
The residents in the Stop the Influx into Springfield Facebook group had a different word for it.
Now something happened in Washington that gave those Springfield residents the last word Mayorkas never saw coming.
The Fight Springfield's Business Class Didn't Want America to See
For years, the establishment ran the script.
Mayor Rob Rue – who also happens to be a landlord collecting rent from migrant-occupied housing – backed the inflow publicly.
GOP Governor Mike DeWine defended it.
Local employers, nonprofits, teachers, and retailers lined up behind a surge that dropped 10,000 to 15,000 Haitians into a city of 60,000 people.
And when ordinary Springfield residents pushed back, the national media called it racism.
Springfield resident William Monaghan told Breitbart News in 2024 what was actually happening on the ground.
"The blossoming has been great for the Big Box retailers, the absentee landlords, the staffing companies, but it's been terrible for regular people here," Monaghan said.
"A handful of people are getting fabulously wealthy on it, but it is destroying the local community."
That was the story the media didn't want to tell.
SCOTUS Shuts Down the Courts That Kept Blocking Trump
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 – straight down ideological lines – that the Trump administration has broad, virtually unreviewable authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that courts simply cannot second-guess the president's TPS decisions.
The ruling overturned lower court orders that had blocked Trump from ending protections for roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians – orders issued by Democrat-appointed judges who found "anti-Black animus" in the administration's actions.
Those judges are now overruled.
Todd Blanche put it plainly on X after the decision: "TPS was always meant to be temporary."
The program dates to 1990 and was extended to Haitians after the 2010 earthquake.
Biden's DHS pumped it up further in 2021 following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse – which is when Springfield's population surge went into overdrive.
Pro-migration lobbying group FWD.us – founded by West Coast billionaires – had submitted a brief to the court claiming Biden's 1.4 million TPS migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and El Salvador generate $20 billion annually for investors.
That argument did not move six Supreme Court justices.
What Happens to Springfield Now
The court's decision unwinds the entire apparatus that made Springfield's transformation possible.
Haitian migrants will lose their work permits.
Employers who keep them on the payroll now face federal fines.
Driver's licenses, access to government aid, and legalized residency all expire.
Asylum claims – already running at a 10 percent approval rate under the Trump administration's Justice Department – are unlikely to provide cover for most.
For ordinary Springfield families, that means something concrete: housing prices squeezed by a near-25-percent population surge will reset.
Jobs that went to TPS holders under staffing agency arrangements will open back up for American workers and vocational students.
Jay Palmer, co-founder of Project Eradicate, which uses lawsuits to expose migration fraud, called the ruling exactly what it was.
"This is a win for Americans," Palmer said. "Now American vocational students and workers have a chance to earn a livable wage."
He also put employers on notice: "We know these businesses will labor traffic these people by directing them to staffing agencies in order to bypass E-Verify. We will be waiting to file lawsuits."
The Springfield News-Sun ran a reaction from Pastor Carl Ruby – the same man who helped bring the Haitian population to Springfield and serves on a business-backed immigration integration group – mourning the ruling and calling on residents to "stand with the vulnerable."
They've been standing in line at housing offices, emergency rooms, and government service windows for three years while their city was handed to a migration wave their own elected leaders engineered without their consent.
The Supreme Court just gave Springfield's people something they haven't had in a long time.
A win.
Sources:
- Neil Munro, "Citizens in Springfield, Ohio Rejoice at Trump's Haitian TPS Amnesty Win," Breitbart, June 25, 2026.
- "Supreme Court Approves Trump's Decision to End TPS Amnesty for Haitians," Breitbart, June 25, 2026.
- "DHS Lawyers Praise SCOTUS Rulings as Victories for the Rule of Law, Common Sense," Breitbart, June 25, 2026.
