Hey, I'm Cole Bierkowitz.
This is Post Reports Weekend.
It's Saturday, August 2nd.
You're going to hear today a story about a Haitian family in Springfield, Ohio.
It's from my colleague Danielle Paquette, a national correspondent for The Post.
Danielle will be narrating the story,
and you'll hear some actual audio of people Danielle spoke with,
where that's possible, instead of hearing Danielle reading their quotes.
This reporting is part of a Washington Post series called Deep Reads.
The idea is to showcase our narrative journalism.
We start now with Danielle, who describes how she came to this story.
I'd been visiting Springfield since last September, right after that debate,
right after that scorching national spotlight landed on this pretty small Ohio city.
And I noticed over time that people were really scared to speak or share anything about their lives.
I was totally stunned when I met this pastor and his family.
I was there to talk to them about the immigration situation.
You know, they were there under temporary protected status.
They'd always assumed they had decades left.
That status has been in place for 15 years now since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
So they had no reason to believe, they told me, that they could be just ousted at any minute.