Michaelle Louis’s feet and legs are aching. She can barely walk.

Surrounded by corn fields and the distant hum of a busy highway, the native of Haiti and dozens of other activists are 23 miles into a 45-mile march from Springfield to Ohio’s statehouse in Columbus to demand better rights for Haitian immigrants.

But the pain she’s feeling now is nothing compared to the mental anguish and fear she was subjected to last summer.

In August, she spent five days huddling with her daughter and brother in the basement of her Springfield home. The family went without electricity during daylight hours out of fear that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers might come knocking on her door to deport them.

“I closed the curtains. I didn’t want anyone to know there was people living in our house,” she recalls.

“We spent our days in silence.”

For months, ICE has terrorized members of Springfield’s immigrant community, speeding after vehicles down normally placid streets and causing crashes.…