Ohio officials had warned that once that happened, ICE agents could swoop into Springfield, a city of around 60,000 where up to a quarter of the population is Haitian, and start rounding people up. Many Haitians here have been living in terror, some afraid to leave their homes. But Noem, in her sycophantic sadism, unintentionally helped give them a reprieve by serving up undeniable evidence of her racist decision-making to a court. “Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants,” wrote Reyes. “This seems substantially likely.”