How an Ohio Town Landed in the Middle of the Immigration Debate...

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Source-https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/springfield-ohio-school-bus-crash-haiti-immigrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk4.Tyo8.ZO-XPwqn78DO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb


snip-"Haitians were new to the region. During the last census, in 2020, a little more than 58,000 people lived in Springfield, a town at the crossroads of America that had fallen on hard times and shed population as opportunity slipped away. But it has changed dramatically in recent years, as a boom in manufacturing and warehouse jobs attracted a swelling wave of immigrants, mainly from Haiti. City officials estimate that as many as 20,000 Haitians have arrived, most of them since the pandemic."


snip-"The city manager, Bryan Heck, explained that the Haitians were lawfully in the country. The police chief, Allison Elliott, said that Haitians were not responsible for the city’s yearslong struggle with crime such as retail theft. Commissioners said that they had come for job opportunities."


snip-"In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in July, he {JD Vance}described Springfield as a town that was nearly a carbon copy of Middletown, where he grew up, except that it had now been “overwhelmed” by Haitians who were pushing up housing costs and collecting benefits.

“And you don’t have to believe, of course, that the 20,000, at least most of the 20,000 newcomers, are bad people” to recognize it as a problem, he said."


much more there

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I'd say that the 20,000 good citizens of Springfield should sue Vance for slander and other such stuff.

This immigrant bashing has got to stop, but unfortunately since tRUMP and/or repugs can't come up w/ any substantial issues other than cut the taxes of the wealthiest 1% (and that's it), they have to use this as a long-running issue.

That's why tRUMP told his sick repugs in Congress to kill the bipartisan immigration bill, so they could continue to use it as an issue.
I saw that Kamala nailed tRUMP at the debate for killing this bill. GOOD!

[Xavier Breath]

2. I grew up in a little town not far from Springfield.

Springfield was where went to shop, to see doctors, or go to the mall, or see movies, basically to do just about everything. I had family that lived there that we visited just about every week. I don't live all that far away now and still go there from time to time when the need arises. I like to think that I know the people there pretty well. So believe me when I say that none of this reprehensible behavior we're witnessing is surprising in the least. I'll leave it at that.