Claims About Haitian Migrants Eating Neighbors’ Pets in Ohio Are Clouding the Issues Facing a Small Midwestern Town, Local Leaders Say
‘After the election results come in and all the pundits are done using Springfield, Ohio, as a talking point, we are the ones who will continue to live with the long-term challenges of this population surge,’ Clark County’s commissioner, Melanie Flax Wilt, says.
Senator Vance is doubling down on claims that Haitian immigrants at Springfield, Ohio, may be stealing and eating neighbors pets. Yet local leaders say they are hoping to redirect the discussion to the problems that come with 20,000 migrants arriving in a town of 60,000 over the course of four years.
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