SPRINGFIELD—Horrifying footage of a woman eating a cat, reports of household pets being slaughtered for food or animal sacrifice, ducks and geese plucked from local ponds and parks and killed, and a city at its breaking point with buses of Haitian migrants arriving routinely.
Add to that an 11-year-old boy who was killed last year, and the city of Springfield, Ohio has found out what immigration now means in America.
The city of just under 60,000 is bearing the full brunt of the nation’s transformation by U.S. government policy and a web of downstream organizations that collect, transport, and resettle migrants, earning astronomical sums off of taxpayer dollars.
At their hands, Springfield has been swamped by an influx of 20,000 Haitian migrants. Springfield’s fate is a chilling portrait of America’s transformation, and it is happening deliberately.
[READ: Inside the Ohio non-profit collecting hundreds of millions for migrant resettlement.]
As if it wasn’t warning enough to the community, a Haitian migrant had already claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy from the area. Aiden Clark died last year when Hermanio Joseph, who was in the country illegally, slammed his Honda Odyssey into a Clark County school bus, injuring Clark’s classmates and ending his life.
Springfield is minutes from Dayton’s all-American suburbs like Beavercreek and Centerville and one of the most important military installations in the world, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in adjacent Fairborn. The base is the largest employer in the state and houses major Air Force technology capital and personnel. Columbus sits 45 minutes to the east along I-70.
Struggling by some metrics, a portrait of small town Americana by others, Springfield is an omen for other cities and towns across Ohio, and the rest of the country. Economically strained by manufacturing plant closures, drugs, and the economic devastation that galvanized Donald Trump’s call to “make America great again,” Clark County turned out for Trump in force in the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Now, after years of an open border and the chain of nonprofits and NGOs collecting billions in government grants to reshape American life with migrants from around the world, Springfield faces strained police and EMS services, squeezed infrastructure, and cultural devastation.
“Who is protecting me?”
In heartbreaking testimony, a citizen of Springfield described to Springfield city leaders at an August council meeting the devastation that could chase her family out of the city they’ve called home for nearly five decades:
“I’m done with what I’m seeing. It’s not safe in my neighborhood anymore. I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard, throwing trash in my yard.”
Absolutely HEARTBREAKING moment Springfield, Ohio, resident tells mayor that she "can't take it anymore" as Haitian migrants squat on her lawn, litter in her yard and harass her and elderly husband daily.
— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) September 7, 2024
The mayor of Springfield does NOT want people to see this: pic.twitter.com/OJtAy7LSXX
“Please, give me a reason to stay.”
Describing the carnage, another Springfieldian said: “I honestly feel like someone’s getting paid ... It's nothing but immigrants [at the welfare office]."
"Haitians are in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 8, 2024
Springfield resident to City Council: pic.twitter.com/aZLsOT8v2b
Today the killing of residents’ pets and local wildlife is a reality.
BREAKING: An Ohio woman has allegedly killed and eaten a cat in front of shocked neighbors. pic.twitter.com/AHOO2tOzjR
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) September 7, 2024
Reports are surfacing — and apparently being censored — on Facebook groups and Reddit pages of wildlife and pets being killed.
From a Springfield, Ohio Facebook post - this is Kamala's third world America. pic.twitter.com/T7BgRAimri
— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) September 6, 2024
Remember when my hometown of Springfield Ohio was all over National news for the Haitians?
— LemmiesLuLu (@BuckeyeGirrl) September 5, 2024
I said all the ducks were disappearing from our parks?
Well, now it’s your pets. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/IirKMjlHPp
Destroyed Social Fabric
Springfield shows the darker side of immigration: Americans’ way of life, lives and livelihoods and shared culture, are on the line. Reports surfaced of strife among Ohioans as landlords are apparently collecting tidy sums off the taxpayer dollars the government is using to fund Springfield’s transformation through resettlement and social services dollars.
One thing that can't be overstated is the degree to which mass migration wreaks havoc on the social cohesion of the already-existing community.
— America 2100 (@America_2100) September 7, 2024
Local landlords, for example, have been making a killing. But they're replacing their fellow citizens—and the locals hate them for it. pic.twitter.com/gdx1fDYhLw
Springfield Mayor Rob Rue told Ohio.news earlier this summer the migrants’ driving habits were causing problems and called for driving tests and literature to be administered in Haitian Creole. Rue’s city government called on national leaders this summer to help the city deal with challenges to housing, infrastructure, and city services.
But can a city recover from the social carnage and cultural transformation of the influx of migrants under which Springfield has suffered? The question immigration advocates must now address is whether a city like Springfield, or any other American city, can avoid becoming a midwestern Port-Au-Prince.
NGOs and the Government Grant Pipeline
Ohio.news covered the viral story of NGOs’ massive profits off of the migrant influx. The National Youth Advocate Program, based in Columbus, collects hundreds of millions in DHS grants for refugee resettlement across the South and Midwest. Its CEO, social worker Marvena Twigg collects a $1.27 million salary.
A cadre of nonprofits, religious organizations, and Non-government organizations collect billions in grants from the government to transform communities like Springfield.
.@CCSWOH soon plans to open a service center in Springfield to help Haitians with immigration status applications, legal advice, and case management. It also plans to connect immigrants with English classes and job training programs.https://t.co/jcjkHoIUGH
— CLINIC (@cliniclegal) January 19, 2024
Cities like Evansville, Indiana, and Sylacauga, Alabama, too, are in the crosshairs of America’s deliberate transformation.
Evansville, Indiana here. Haitian infiltrations occurring. Coordinated via local NGO. The city and county have a processing center in downtown Evansville known as the “Haitian Center”; taxpayers are paying for the facilitation. Local Walmart is overrun with Haitians using…
— Ken Colbert (@KColbertReport) September 5, 2024
At a Sylacauga City Council meeting, residents demanding transparency and accountability over the town’s tide of illegal immigrants were shut down by city leaders.
Council meeting abruptly shut down in Sylacauga, AL after residents demand transparency over influx of illegals: pic.twitter.com/lM6VZ8N3JX
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 6, 2024
While city governments are hardly to blame for the enormous public-private immigration apparatus of federal government policy and the NGOs in the profiteering pipeline that is deliberately transforming cities across the country, cities, and their residents will first take the full force of the transformation.
What happens next in a town like Springfield may hinge on the upcoming election, in which immigration and mass deportations have become the central issue. That is, unless cities, and citizens, find some other way to take their communities back.
