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What's Going on in Springfield, Ohio?

What's Going on in Springfield, Ohio?

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Robert Lindsay
Sep 16, 2024
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You have heard the reports about the government putting 20,000 Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, a city of 80,000 mostly-White working class people. They now make up 25% of the population.

They’re not illegals. They’re here on Temporary Protected Status. There are huge problems with TPS.

For instance they get in on TPS, which is supposed to be temporary, and then they end up staying forever, many years past whatever the emergency was that brought them here in the first place.

Salvadoran refugees were still in the country 15-20 years after the earthquake that brought them here, even though conditions had long since recovered. TPS always works this way and there seems to be no hope of reforming it.

The Haitians started coming to this city in 2020. Most of them were actually already in the US. They came to the city from all over due to the promise of jobs.

Haitian workers have become new hires at the local factories and managers report that they are actually better workers than White America…

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