Posted on 09/14/2024 6:42:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
Singer John Legend has called on the residents of Springfield, Ohio, to accept thousands of illegal Haitian migrants into their communities, claiming former president Donald Trump lied about them eating pets.
Legend, who was born in Springfield, posted a video to his 15.8 million followers on Instagram saying Trump’s claims about the illegal migrants were false.
“So I think all of us need to have the same kind of grace that we would want our ancestors to have when they moved here,” Legend said.
“Springfield has had a large influx of Haitian immigrants who come to our city,” said the singer.
“Now, our city had been shrinking for decades. We didn’t have enough jobs. We didn’t have enough opportunity, so people left and went somewhere else.”
He also claimed the local economy had grown because of the Haitians.
“And during the same time, there has been upheaval and turmoil in Haiti,” Legend continued.
“The federal government granted visas and immigration status to a certain number of Haitian immigrants so they could come to our country legally,” he continued.
“There are plenty of reasons why this might be a challenge for my hometown,” the singer said.
“But the bottom line is these people came to Springfield because there were jobs for them and they were willing to work.”
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Legend then compared the immigrants to others in U.S. history, like Poland, Italy, Ireland, and Germany – conveniently forgetting to mention that people from those countries came in legally.
“They commit less crime than native-born Americans, and they will assimilate and integrate in time, but it takes time,” he said.
“So I think all of us need to have the same kind of grace that we would want our ancestors to have when they moved here with our Haitian brothers and sisters,” he continued.
“Nobody’s eating cats,” he added.
“Nobody’s eating dogs.”
Legend concluded by saying, “love our neighbor as we love ourselves and treat strangers as though they might be Christ.”
He concluded by appealing to the Christian tradition to “love our neighbor as we love ourselves and treat strangers as though they might be Christ.”
Contrary to Legend’s claim that “nobody is eating cats,” residents in Springfield have reported that the Haitian immigrants are eating pets and killing animals in broad daylight.
Nice preaching to people in a bathrobe on tv
Cmon man put some clothes on
Send all 20,000 to his house.
People keep voting democrat and they may soon be fighting with Haitians over who gets to have cat for dinner.
Legend needs to send all of his wealth to Springfield to fund his ideology.
If John Legend loves his home town so much, why doesn’t he still live there?
they need to start bringing bus loads of them and dumping them on his lawn!
The irony; The US Government is importing slaves from the islands with full support of the people demanding reparations.
john legend has a net worth of a $100,000,000 and lives in a Beverly Hills 10,700 square foot mansion in Beverly Hills that is featured in:https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/john-legend-chrissy-teigen-california-home
and this world class elitist asshole has the balls to tell regular folks who struggle to pay the rent or mortgage on two-bedroom apartments or 2,000 square foot homes that they should just grin and bear it when their small community has 10,000 Haitian peasants dumped onto their streets ...
Okay, let forget about eating cats for a second. How does he feel about the dangerous driving habits of a lot of the Haitians, and the case of the grandmother who was run down and killed by a Haitian driver, and the driver was never charged with her death and will never be charged? The fact is that if the Haitian had remained in Haiti, the grandmother would be alive.
There is plenty of government and NGO culpability that, along with the driver, contributed to this woman’s being slaughtered in front of her own home.
“But the bottom line is these people came to Springfield because there were jobs for them and they were willing to work.”
You may pick one from Column A or one from Column B.
But you may not have both.
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These Hatians will work for less money than Americans in the service sector. They will put native African Americans out of work.
People will be lucky if the worst thing Haitians are doing is eating local cats. Ship all 20k of them to John Legend’s address. He probably has a pretty big house.
Wonder if he's told his plastic mattress Chrissy Teigen that he swings both ways?
Who died and appointed you the arbiter of immigration? It is overwhelming to have an influx of 20,000 illiterate filthy Haitians into a town of 60,000. And there are plenty of reports of them eating pets as well as driving without licenses and causing traffic accidents.
Does Legend’s mom and dad still live in Springfield? If not, why not?
Hopefully, a Trump town hall is coming up.
Springfield, Ohio, population of 58,000. Number of Haitian immigrants: 20,000.
Where do Legend’s parents live? I assume they live in Springfield. Fox&Friends needs to have his mother on to ask her what she has experienced there.
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