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Two downtown Elkhart retailers told CBS News correspondent Janet Shamlian that they're seeing people pull back on spending as President Trump's tariffs and trade wars create uncertainty.

South Bend's Office of Diversity and Inclusion says its talk Thursday is booked solid but they plan more talks each quarter, with the next coming in June.

The South Bend Redevelopment Commission Thursday will consider earmarking $1.3 million to demolish the long-abandoned South Bend Range factory — if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will clean up of the site.

The Trump executive order costs Catholic Charities of Fort Wayne-South Bend about $1 million in federal funding to help war refugees resettle.

Because it sits in a neighborhood with many people who are low-income or of color, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had said the South Bend Range site cleanup could qualify for a new environmental justice program that Trump is eliminating.

South Bend Mayor James Mueller issued a statement praising the move, saying the Biden Administration lawsuit was an abuse of federal power because the city has followed state law.

The United Religious Community of St. Joseph County since 2021 has helped more than 300 refugees, mostly from Afghanistan and Ukraine, resettle in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties.

Trump's threatened 25% tariff quickly drew retaliation from Canada, which imported about 30,000 RVs last year from the U.S. Most of those were made in the Elkhart area.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told of a teacher who retired early because too many students don't know English.

Sean O'Brien, who has practiced immigration law for five years in South Bend, has started leading a new Immigration Law Clinic at La Casa de Amistad to prepare for a Trump administration crackdown.