MEDINA—Multiple reports have surfaced of buses of migrants arriving in more Ohio towns, with sightings reported in Brunswick and Medina yesterday. Ohio.news confirmed with local residents of Medina County sightings of charter buses unloading near an address on Foskett Road. Neighbors saw buses of migrants unloading, some picked up in cars and leaving the site, others staying nearby, sources said.
The sightings yesterday in Medina came on the heels of new reports emerging of migrant resettlement in Lockland, just north of Cincinnati.
The Story
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— Stephanie Stock (@OAMFStephanie) October 9, 2024
Residents of Northeast Ohio reported seeing buses of migrants in Medina County, including in Brunswick. The reports surfaced just as new details emerged about an influx of migrants to Lockland, Ohio, a few miles north of Cincinnati, with NGOs resettling migrants there from Senegal and Mauritania.
New Exclusive video: Lockland, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati, being overrun by Kamala Harris and Catholic Charities with Mauritanian Muslim men. They have doubled the population of this already impoverished community with illegals! You have to hear what they say about slavery in… pic.twitter.com/oibvhGr0Gb
— Ben Bergquam - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News (@BenBergquam) October 9, 2024
The transformation of Springfield, in Clark County between Dayton and Columbus, became the talk of the nation after 20,000 migrants from Haiti came to settle in the city of 58,000 people.
Springfield’s crisis saw strained police and emergency services, cultural upheaval, and a housing crunch with rents skyrocketing by more than 30% as landlords were able to collect a premium on housing migrants backed by major government grants for refugee resettlement.
Last year, ABC News5 in Cleveland reported on an expected surge of migrants to Northeast Ohio from Venezuela, Cuba, and Honduras. News5’s coverage interviewed pro-immigration officials and advocates saying cities are ready.
But Springfield’s crisis has shown what’s at stake for communities when there are major incentives for landlords to house migrants backed by hefty government subsidies, plus huge DHS-grant dollars behind non-profit organizations and NGOs that collect hundreds of millions off migrant-resettlement.
The incentives to bring migrants to communities, and employ and house them, have also opened up the possibility of exploitation. The FBI and Ohio Attorney General’s Office are apparently investigating a Springfield staffing agency, whose President George Ten is also a landlord, as part of a human trafficking inquiry.
Additionally, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) subpoenaed NGOs and non-profits, including the Columbus-based National Youth Advocate Program, as part of a Senate inquiry. Ohio.news reported on the NGOs collecting hundreds of millions in DHS grants off of migrant resettlement.
DHS funds spent on migrants became a flashpoint again when DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced there were insignificant funds to aid victims of Hurricane Helene last week in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Congressman Max Miller, who represents Ohio’s 7th District, including Medina County, criticized Mayorkas’ spending of $1.4 billion of FEMA funds on migrants.
The #BidenHarrisAdministration should prioritize taking care of Americans who are in need instead of wasting taxpayer dollars on a migrant crisis that it created.#AmericaFirsthttps://t.co/aID59mIm3C
— Congressman Max Miller (@RepMaxMiller) October 4, 2024
Immigration, legal or otherwise, has become the flashpoint of the 2024 election cycle with untold millions pouring across the U.S. southern border during the Biden-Harris administration. The picture emerging from Springfield and other towns shows America’s transformation has also come at the hands of networks of NGOs resettling migrants under the banner of the Biden-Harris administration’s Temporary Protected Status.
Ohio Stakes
The reports come at a difficult time for Kamala Harris as her campaign struggles to connect with voters in the home stretch of the 2024 election. Hurricane Helene, and FEMA’s disastrous handling of the issue coupled with its misspending of funds on migrants during her tenure, have proven a liability for Harris.
Meanwhile, odds flipped in favor of former President Donald Trump last week with new states in play — and, Trump has led Harris on the election’s top issue, immigration and America’s transformation, throughout the cycle.
The sea change could spell a shakeup in down-ballot contests such as Ohio’s key Senate race between three-term incumbent Sherrod Brown and GOP challenger Bernie Moreno. Trump’s recent surge may yet take Moreno across the finish line ahead of Brown.
A stunning new poll showed Moreno narrowing Brown’s lead to under five points. Some polls in recent weeks have actually shown Moreno ahead by a nose in the contest. Brown has consistently led Moreno by as many as eight points.
But new developments in the cycle — including Americans’ disappointment in the Biden-Harris administration spending FEMA funds on migrants and the crisis of Springfield, and other Ohio towns — could put Brown on notice.
With his lead slipping, Brown has less than a month to articulate his distance from the Biden-Harris administration’s migration agenda, and Ohioans will have to look past the transformation of Ohio cities through migrant resettlement as they head to the ballot box.
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