The federal government says it has removed approximately 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage as part of a sweeping effort to identify fraud, improper subsidies and enrollment records that officials say could not be verified. That is the headline. But it is not the whole story.

“Springfield is under siege.” That’s what multiple faith leaders said the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 28, during a passionate press conference calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cease its “humiliating” treatment of local Haitian immigrants.

Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors