Springfield Ohio is hardly the shining blight of the Haitian immigrant issue. It's just a political plaything. A stunt.

Florida and the Northeast have insanely more Hatian immigrants than Ohio.

Springfield is just a case of a town that had sunk in population and initially had ample living and job opportunity for the first wave of immigrants. It eventually took on more than it could provide for so they are getting pushback now.

Too much of a good thing.

The fact that FL and several NE states aren't being mentioned at all in this screams that the whole "issue" around Springfield is a political stunt meant to ramp up the fear mongering.

Our country, like everyone else that has it pretty good, is going to be forced to continually make it tougher to immigrate and it's a shame. But it is what it is.
Lying about legal status, threatening/planning mass deportation, misclassifying immigrants as criminals, and driving fear is not the right way to go about it. But someone sees that as easy low hanging fruit to help get elected.

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