The Rust Belt community of Springfield, Ohio, now has a page on its website dedicated to answering common questions about the flood of illegal aliens, mostly Haitians, who have arrived there in recent years.
“The City of Springfield has experienced a surge in our population over the last several years, primarily due to an influx of legal immigrants choosing Springfield, Ohio as their new home,” the city’s website states, officially describing illegal aliens as “legal immigrants.”
Clark County, situated between Columbus and Dayton, includes Springfield. The county’s migrant population is estimated at 12,000 to 15,000, according to Springfield’s “Immigration FAQs” webpage.
Others, including one state representative for Springfield, estimate the total migrant population to be closer to 20,000. (According to the 2020 census, the city’s total population was 58,000.)
Despite the city’s declaration that the Haitian migrants are “legal,” the reality is nuanced at best.
“The Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are in various immigration statuses,” according to Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.
Although a “small number” of the Haitian migrants may fall under legal resident status, Hankinson said in an email to The Daily Signal, the majority fall into one of three categories:
- Recipients of Temporary Protected Status, which the president can assign to nationals of designated countries for (supposedly) temporary periods if wars, natural disasters, or other one-off events render their country incapable for a time of reabsorbing them.
- Those who arrived illegally between ports of entry … but [are] soon released with a Notice to Appear in immigration court in a lengthy process to deport (“remove”) them.
- Those paroled in via the Biden administration’s highly disputed, and arguably unconstitutional, [parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans] or CBPOne programs. […]
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EVERYTHING is legal in A m e r i c a!!!
Good article, but it doesn’t entirely answer the question why springfield. Who’s employing them? Ask that question, then you’ll understand why the city government’s website says what it says.
The reason why is money … Cheap labor .. Big money
And that big money decides who’s employed with the city government, and what goes on that website …