In Springfield Ohio, TPS holders continue the talk at the Supreme Court while battling for Haitian citizen safety. Residents in Springfield rose to support the immigrant community on Monday, March 16.

As this is occurring, dozens meet at the Greater Grace Temple with the Supreme Court to discuss more about the decision, and at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Supreme Court announced it will be hearing oral arguments on Haitian and Syrian TPS status in the upcoming weeks.

As the Supreme Court prepares to look at the case’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, a new brief was filed on the Haitian community.

This said brief recounted experiences from multiple Springfield residents, and spoke for the Haitian immigrant population and their well-doing for the local community and economy.

An attorney who helped file the newest amicus brief on the Haitian community stated that the impact from a SCOTUS decision would not only affect the Haitian TPS holders community, but everyone else as well.

“When the Haitian community here is threatened, the whole community feels it from schools to churches to public buildings,” said Renee Murphy, an attorney with ABLE (Bales & Southhall, March 16,2026).

“The statutory design is straightforward: TPS exists because threats to life exist; when the threat persists, so should TPS protection, unless the Secretary articulates a well-reasoned and well-supported national interest to the contrary,” Secretary of state Kristi Noem states(March 6,2026).

A group of six people who each run a local community in Springfield, who of many spoke at the conference today, saying they will be in Washington D.C. tomorrow to speak from the steps ahead of the Supreme Court.