Daniel Aula has found opportunity in Springfield. But he’s also found himself in the middle of a bitter national debate on immigration heading into November’s election, fueled in this case largely by rumors and threats.
It’s just past 4am. Daniel Aula is in his one room apartment praying, thankful he’s alive, and thankful he’s heading to work. Aula, originally from Haiti, has been living in Springfield over a year now. He knew about the quiet Ohio city through a friend and heard it had not only a low cost of living but also great work opportunities to match. Why not? It’s a world better than what he was running from. Aula had been a police officer back in crime-wracked Haiti, until he wasn’t.
In 2022, at their first meeting, Pedraza said there were 45 people from different organizations who showed up. They’ve only grown since then, but part of the problem recently is they have not had the “financial resource to help us to continue to do it, and to do it at a speed where everyone in the community is going to feel that there’s some relief.” Regardless, the multilateral level of coordination across sectors has been “incredibly effective,” she said.
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