Posted on 07/15/2024 10:04:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Springing, a city in southwestern Ohio, is facing an unprecedented number of newly arrived illegal aliens, most from Haiti, who have strained local resources, Fox News reported on Saturday.
Springfield Mayor Rob Rue blamed the Biden administration’s lax immigration policies in an interview on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First.
“This border crisis, the policy of this administration, is failing cities like ours and taxing us beyond our limit,” Rue said. “This has overwhelmed safety services and caused great concern for our community.”
City Manager Bryan Heck echoed Rue’s concerns, highlighting that Springfield’s infrastructure and services cannot support the new arrivals.
“It’s taxing our infrastructure,” Heck stated. “It’s taxing public safety. It’s taxing our schools. It’s taxing health care…it’s taxing our housing. … “It’s setting communities like Springfield up to fail. And, we do not have the capacity to sustain it, and, without additional federal assistance or support, communities like Springfield will fail.”
According to Heck, federal funding to the city has decreased in recent years, failing to keep pace with the population increase triggered by illegal aliens.
“Federal funding has actually been reduced over the last couple of years…so that’s concerning to us as a community, because certainly adding 15 to 20,000, we need additional support, we need additional resources,” he said.
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, addressed these dire concerns with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on a Tuesday hearing, citing a letter from Heck to U.S. Senators.
Reading from the letter, Vance said, “‘Springfield has seen a surge in population through immigration that has significantly impacted our ability as a community to produce enough housing opportunities for all Springfield’s Haitian population has increased 15 to 20,000 over the last four years in a community of under 60,000 previous residents putting a significant strand on our resources and ability to provide ample housing for all of our residents.’”
They need to go back.
Stat.
Tyson or Smithfield or Perdue plant in the vicinity? Maybe someone sent out word of mass employment of Haitians there, as elsewhere in the US.
Migration is weapon of democrats to destroy red states. So far red states don’t seem to get it
25% influx of immigrants that speak little to no English and have no first world hygiene habits.
Haitians are deemed Humanitarian Parolees. Thus subject to all low wage benefits including SSI. Few find jobs because of their lack of skills. The Federal Money is Fungible, and they don’t understand that.
last fall an immigrant went left of center and drove a school bus off the road resulting in the death of a little boy and other hurt. https://www.whio.com/news/local/multiple-injuries-reported-after-school-bus-crash-clark-county/YWQRFROXCVDWVGR4PFVE2QVIQE/
This is Mike Turners district. Some tried to move into Jim Jordans, but lack of facilities was cited to stop it.
Places like Opa-Locka became a literal warzone overnight.
The safe, clean, affordable lower middle class neighborhood I grew up in was gone within a year after they showed up, along with all of the mainstream shops and stores in the area.
My maternal grandmother spent a lot of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, and she would tell me a lot of stories about what she witnessed, and I did't believe her until they showed up.
ship to NY or DC
ship to Ukraine. Lots of empty space there.
I’ve had displeasure of working with MANY Haitians both as coworkers and as healthcare clients- I can count the productive ones and ones who weren’t just plain nasty on one hand, maybe 2 hands, otherwise- nope
Remember back in 2022 when things really began to heat up in Haiti, there were people who predicted these people would just be brought in en masse to this country with no vetting, no legislative process or approval.
They predicted they would just be brought in like this, taken to places like Ohio, and forced on them with no recourse.
And so it is. Our own government is at war with the citizenry.
The city should refuse to do anything to help them because federal law says so! Section 1324 title 8 says it’s a federal felony to do anything that encourages illegals to live here. They are not allowed to get a job or collect welfare or even rent housing.
Every Haitian I’ve ever encounter was a loud mouth talking incessantly on their cell phones.
Hey! Sounds like what’s happened to my hometown of Sacramento, CA but with afghanis, not Haitians. The sheer number of afghanis is shocking. The amount of stores with Arabic on their awnings is insane. They are changing the face of this city and I don’t plan on sticking around to see what it looks like a decade from now.
And none in Martha’s Vineyard.
Port a Prince Ohio
Someone will get rich selling voodoo supplies to the Haitians.
This administration is infecting the country in many ways to weaken it to meet it’s agenda.
Democrats aren’t behind this
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