JD Vance says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are 'illegal'. Experts say he is wrong.
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For this claim, we’ll focus on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, whom city officials say account for most of the immigrants who have settled there in the past four years. Are they in the US legally?
We can’t confirm the status of every immigrant who has recently moved to the city. But local and state officials said most are there legally because they’re in the US under temporary legal protections, humanitarian parole and temporary protected status.
Immigration law experts told PolitiFact that Haitians in these temporary programmes are in the US legally.
You are free to think and feel about them however you want but they are here legally. You may not agree with or like how they came about that status but the status that they currently have is legal status.