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On the ground in Springfield: portraits of a town in the grip of the migrant crisis
by Ohio.news on Sep 15, 2024
Springfield, Ohio’s onslaught of 20,000 Haitian migrants swamping the struggling town of fewer than 60,000 drew the eyes of America after reports surfaced of migrants killing pets and local wildlife.
But apart from the story’s flashpoints and viral touchstones, what is obscured is the destruction of a community in real-time. Springfield was already struggling: many already receiving government assistance, a tragic theme of addiction to drugs, and its manufacturing economy a shadow of what it once was.
