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“The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants that has landed it in the national spotlight. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said [last] Tuesday he doesn’t oppose the Temporary Protected Status program under which some 15,000 Haitians have arrived in the city of about 59,000 people since 2020, but said the federal government must do more to help impacted communities.” AP News
“Bomb threats prompted the evacuation of schools and government buildings for a second day on Friday in [Springfield] that has been the focus of unwanted attention after former President Donald Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants are abducting and eating pets.” AP News
The left criticizes the false claims made about the Haitians in Springfield.
“The thing to remember is not just that Trump and Vance are lying about immigrants eating pets in Springfield. It’s that Vance is happy to admit that they’re lying. He’s done that twice, first in an X post last week and then once more on CNN… ‘If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,’ Vance said, an admission so brazen, it briefly dumbfounded [host] Dana Bash.”
David A. Graham, The Atlantic
“Trump’s brand of conspiratorial lying transformed his unfounded claims of election theft in 2020 into a rabid mob that descended on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Now, the question of whether Trump’s lies lead to actual violent behavior is no longer conjectural. And as Vance helpfully articulated, the point of the lying is to capture and channel a desired mood, a rallying cause that motivates people to action…
“The Republican ticket’s exploitation of that mood has now sent hundreds of Springfield children fleeing from their schools, led to the terrorization of countless city employees, reopened the psychic wounds of a grieving father, and placed a target on the backs of a migrant minority that was already regarded with suspicion. It reaffirms that Trump’s vision for returning to power will likely require an indiscriminate range of casualties.”
Zak Cheney-Rice, New York Magazine
“Are immigrant workers taking jobs away from native-born Americans?… It’s true that at the national level the native-born labor force has actually declined since 2019. But big picture, the explanation isn’t that immigrants are taking away jobs; it’s that baby boomers are reaching retirement age. Native-born Americans in their prime working years are more likely to be employed than before the pandemic, or for that matter at any point during the Trump administration…
“At the level of some of the communities that have attracted large numbers of immigrant workers, the picture is even clearer. By fostering overall growth in a city’s economy, immigrants often increase employment among the native-born… One 2015 study found that ‘each immigrant creates 1.2 local jobs for local workers, most of them going to native workers.’”
Paul Krugman, New York Times
“[This] could have been an occasion for a fruitful debate about the policies and resources needed both to encourage economic growth and to absorb large numbers of outsiders; a debate about how to create decent jobs with decent wages and how to assuage pressures on social infrastructure… Conservatives often claim that the public are denied a debate about immigration. But given the opportunity for such a debate, many prefer to display their bigotry than engage in reasoned discussion.”
Kenan Malik, The Guardian
The right focuses on the effects of the recent influx of Haitians to Springfield.
The right focuses on the effects of the recent influx of Haitians to Springfield.
“No, it is not true that local Haitians are stealing people’s pets… We have no evidence at all of stolen pets in Springfield. But the media is using exaggerated claims and lies to dismiss the whole underlying story, which is that the influx of Haitians into Springfield, OH, is causing problems, and those problems would not exist but for the Biden-Harris Administration policies that allowed the massive influx…
“The local public health outlet has had to increase its interpreter budget from $40,000 to over $400,000 to cover Creole interpreters for the Haitians. Local taxes have to go up, and services have to be cut to make up for the difference…
“Likewise, local landlords are getting more rent from the Haitian population than government-subsidized housing, so over 200 properties have been pulled out of federal housing programs. Now, there is a homelessness issue that did not exist before.”
Erick-Woods Erickson, Substack
“Under the Biden administration’s open-handed immigration policies, every place in the country has become subject to sudden, disruptive demographic change. We’ve seen it in big cities, where Democratic mayors have complained of the associated burdens, and now we are seeing it in a small city. To match in relative terms what’s happened in Springfield, more than 2 million migrants would have had to arrive in New York City the last several years…
“People are more than cogs to be plugged into warehouses or manufacturing operations. They come with families and with needs for housing, health care, and education. They have pre-existing cultural predilections different from ours (Haiti and the United States are very different places), and if they don’t speak the language, that makes everything even more difficult. Nor are resources unlimited…
“The city manager, Bryan Heck, wrote a letter to U.S. senators saying that the influx is ‘putting a significant strain on our resources and ability to provide ample housing for all of our residents.’… News reports often dismiss as ill-informed or xenophobic the concerns of residents. Their complaints about the costs and disorder associated with the wave of immigration are legitimate, though, and the sense that the town has undergone a large-scale change that no one was consulted about is very real.”
Rich Lowry, National Review
“Martha's Vineyard couldn't deal with 50 refugees. New York City is groaning under the weight of a tiny fraction, relatively speaking, of migrants that Springfield is. In Springfield there are about 3 residents per refugee; in New York City, it is somewhere between 200-400 Americans per refugee… The issue isn't dogs or cats but the declining quality of life for American citizens.”
David Strom, Hot Air
