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I told them we are looking for some federal help, I told them that we will continue to look at the different streams of federal dollars (available) to see if we can qualify, but we would like some help,” DeWine said in a Fox News interview Friday. “They have said, ‘We will try to help you.’ So, we’re in a conversation back and forth.”"},{"_id":"TGBLO527FZBPBLHMBFY46S7V4A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1726501777610},"type":"text","content":"Conversations of this kind have been ongoing for months. The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security has been in close communications with Springfield officials since the spring, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre."},{"_id":"KPTMAZWKAFBDLE2TA5RKRJH4T4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1726501777611},"type":"text","content":"She told national reporters Friday that the administration had already made a pool of $1.3 billion available specifically to communities like Springfield — which has since run dry — and tried to make another $1.4 billion available for local assistance in the bipartisan border deal that failed after former President Donald Trump pressured congressional Republicans, including Sen. 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In terms of solutions, Turner has met and is working with Springfield leaders to “identify ways to help the community, whether it be securing financial resources or passing legislation.”"},{"_id":"SH2BCVKV6JCLNBXWS2YSXNCEKY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1726501777615},"type":"text","content":"Amy Cox, November’s Democratic candidate against Turner, told this news outlet that she would look to secure funds through the U.S. Department of Education to hire more teachers in Springfield City Schools, which Springfield Mayor Rob Rue has said is taking on 40 new students a week due to the Haitian influx."},{"_id":"PQ4Y6QH4SZBRVFLEDGAONR6IFM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1726501777616},"type":"text","content":"Cox also called for the federal government to provide funds for “needed English Language Learner staff and to build additional facilities for the influx of students, and these spaces could be used for Driver’s Education and adult lifetime learning classes after school.” She said plans to expand services and bring new facilities to Springfield “should have an eye toward temporary capacity and permanent upgrades for the community.”"},{"_id":"GIYUDK2MNRGD7NM75KMIMMU75I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1726505387766},"type":"text","content":"Meanwhile as Trump has made Springfield a centerpiece of his campaign regarding immigration reforms — vowing to start mass deportations in Springfield if elected president — his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris has said little about the issue and her campaign did not return a request for comment for this story."},{"_id":"TXIRRBEOFBFVDIB6N76R37FZNU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":", the Republican opponent hoping to unseat Brown this November, did not respond to a set of questions inquiring about his views on federal assistance in time for publication. 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Instead, he’s opted to work only with the “essential facts” of Springfield’s immigrant-related strains, which he said includes: A growing number of car accidents; too much demand on local healthcare services; a lack of English-to-Creole translation services; and housing demand issues that have caused prices to increase and many Haitians to live in overcrowded homes."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726250020760},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"LNW5DZ4SEFCTTP6R2PUVIG5S6E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"“The problem here is, there is absolutely no plan at all when these people came in, and yes I certainly blame the administration,” DeWine said. “They need to have a plan.”"}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061241},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"ZM2EVP5XUFF6ZJAAUKY6PMZSBQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"The Department of Homeland Security and the Biden Administration has been in communication with Springfield officials since the spring, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. She told reporters Friday that the Biden administration had made over a billion dollars available for communities like Springfield, which has since run dry. Another $1.4 billion in support was written into the bipartisan border deal that was abandoned at the behest of former President Donald Trump."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061243},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"TP6XLQRX6ZEQLBEWNQ5BZRBFEQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"“The administration has indeed provided more than $1.3 billion dollars in jurisdictions around the country to help with the influx and what they’re dealing with,” said Jean-Pierre. “We want to do more, but we’ve been blocked.”"}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061244},"type":"text","content":""},{"level":3,"_id":"OZE522BVBZG4RAZM73GRMLFBQU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"Program frustration"}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061245},"type":"header","content":""},{"_id":"F57GUG7KLJBC3MIDY2JZNFEOEE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"Despite the strains Springfield has seen, DeWine has repeatedly said he’s behind the government’s intentions of providing refuge for Haitians and any other foreigners whose lives are at risk in their own country. He’s framed it as something America has always been able to do — though he wishes the financial wraparounds were baked into the immigration programs themselves."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061246},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"PBO6CUT2BFFKZFRPD4PFBO27WY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"Most of Springfield’s Haitian population, the state has said, are legally authorized to be in America through a federal program called Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which grants citizens from Haiti and 15 other countries in tumult permission to live in the U.S. for 18 months at a time — so long as those individuals meet certain safety standards."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726250020761},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"SO4CICYW7RG67G62JCLOC52B7E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"But, the TPS program is rather laissez-faire after the initial authorization. Unlike federal refugee programs, the government does not direct the new immigrants where to go and TPS does not have financial assistance reserved for communities that, through no initiative of their own, end up taking on large numbers of immigrants."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726250020762},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"XDRERQ657BDE7PMDLJYKJVO3KE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"“There’s nothing wrong with us being welcoming, but I think the federal government has an obligation (to help),” DeWine told Fox News. “If you look at the people of Springfield, they had nothing to do with this decision, no one in Ohio had anything to do with it.”"}],"comments":[],"_id":1726250020764},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"S46SLACGMFG5LDDVLEZERFHNMI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"As the state understands it, TPS-approved Haitians originally settled in Springfield for work purposes and, as the immigrant community grew, the city became an increasingly attractive place for more Haitians to settle. DeWine, informed by his extensive charitable ties with Haiti, has explained that “it’s no wonder” why some Haitians would look to flee their country, which has been torn by violence following the assassination of the Haitian president in 2021."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726250020763},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"PGHHN5IIGFHZ5MWNXL4VFX56PE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"In a statement to this news outlet, the office of U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, took aim not at TPS, but at a lesser-known immigration program that his office believes is a major driver of Haitian immigration to Springfield: The Cuban Haitian Nicaraguan Venezuelan Parole program, set up by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2022."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726258629423},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"RK6X6GXEIFCRBIOQDQQ4X5GZ34","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"The program, simply referred to as the Haitian Parole Program by Turner’s office, is meant to reduce the bottleneck at the southern border by allowing qualified citizens of the aforementioned countries to enter the country through other ports of entry, like airports."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726258629424},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"B7HZN6JV4FE4NC5INAUW3J7VSM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"In order to qualify, citizens of these countries must pass a DHS safety screening and have a U.S. based “supporter” who can vouch for them. 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In March, the Miami Herald reported that the program survived a legal challenge from Texas, with the backing of Ohio and various other red states, after a Republican federal judge found that the plaintiffs had no legal standing."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061255},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"J54MDICRLFD2JDGIYDEYM4XKYY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"On Friday, a spokesperson for Turner maintained that the program is illegal and has been “abused by Biden-Harris Administration to send more than 15,000 Haitian migrants to Springfield, Ohio.”"}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061256},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"MQS35IKN5VBZ7FHPFES2G3WHPY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"“Congressman Turner has challenged the Department of Homeland Security about the legality of the Haitian Parole Program and the Biden-Harris Administration’s unlawful use to resettle migrants across the United States indefinitely,” the spokesperson said. “He is working with Mayor Rob Rue, City Manager Bryan Heck, and other community leaders in Springfield to identify ways to help the community, whether it be securing financial resources or passing legislation.”"}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061257},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"43D5UBIGKJBV3DSXNMDXRXAXZY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"A White House spokesperson told this news outlet that there is no estimate of how many of Springfield’s Haitian immigrants are authorized via TPS or the parole program."}],"comments":[],"_id":1726496061258},"type":"text","content":""},{"_id":"KJPU2EF5ENFS3CHNFGWPHD3RGU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":0,"comment":"Springfield and the state have worked extensively for solutions, with the state offering support to increase training programs for Haitian drivers and bolstering Clark State University’s English language classes. 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