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For weeks, we've been contemplating what would happen to the hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants legally in the U.S. once their temporary protected status expired.

Well, the deadline came and went Monday.

So now we're getting a sense of what the impact of that actually looks like.

In a moment, I'll speak with Corrine.

She says that she was just nine years old when she moved to the U.S. with her mother after Haiti's earthquake.

She's now 26 years old, and she's wondering if the country she's called home for most of her life might soon force her to go back to a country she doesn't know.

There's also a specific community that feels targeted this morning.

We've talked a lot about Springfield, Ohio, and it became the focus of President Trump's diatribes about Haitians during the election.

Well, now there's a concern that they could be a target of ICE.

Viles Dorsenville, executive director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, shared with us this copy of a letter.

He says a member of his community received it from ICE.

He says other Haitians in Springfield have gotten one like it, ordering them to check in.

We reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security about this.

DHS sent us a statement.

It said, in part, DHS does not discuss ongoing or future operations.

Temporary protected status is exactly that, temporary.

They added, what we would say now is it's closing time, which means you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

The good news, it's not too late to get a $2,600 check and a free flight home.

DHS keeps making that closing time pun, but there is real fear here, fear of being called in by ICE when you've been here legally with TPS until now, fear of being detained, of being deported, fear of returning to a country you don't know or don't feel safe in.

Let's talk about that now with Corrine and Viles.