内容摘要：“We need to stand strong and remember the fact that this is part of our history,” Battin told reporters.

“We need to stand strong and remember the fact that this is part of our history,” Battin told reporters.

Haitian immigrants gather at a park following a church service where they shared pizza and sought out answers about their legal status, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Haitian immigrants gather at a park following a church service where they shared pizza and sought out answers about their legal status, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

“I do know that he says, ‘America for the Americans,’” she said. “But all the jobs, all the production that happens because of immigrants? It’s obvious we’re needed.”Haitian immigrants walk through the park following a church service, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Haitian immigrants walk through the park following a church service, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

She said she will leave the U.S. if ordered to.Others aren’t so sure.

“I really can’t go back,” said a Haitian woman who asked to be identified only as Nicole because she fears deportation. “It’s not even a decision.”

She works at a meatpacking plant, deboning cattle carcasses for more than $20 an hour. She received Homeland Security’s message, but insists it can’t refer to someone who has followed the laws as she had, pointing to a phrase exempting people who have “otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain.”Incense, placed in a cup of rice, burns on an altar outside a restaurant to seek prosperity in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Incense, placed in a cup of rice, burns on an altar outside a restaurant to seek prosperity in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)A group of people fills the sidewalk outside a restaurant as they share dishes made from rice in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A group of people fills the sidewalk outside a restaurant as they share dishes made from rice in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Changing centuries-old forms of rice farming is expensive, and even though methane is a more potent cause of global warming than carbon dioxide, it only receives 2% of climate financing, Ajay Banga, the World Bank’s president, told the