The costs of illegal immigration are sinking cities
By
Zachary Faria
September 19, 2024 2:00 pm
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Democrats like to avoid the topic of illegal immigration, flooding the debate with rosy ideals of “sanctuary” and acceptance. Their hope is that everyone loses sight of the real human costs that come with a massive surge in illegal immigration.
The illegal immigration conversation has recently turned to Springfield, Ohio, a city of 59,000 people. Springfield has been an immigration dumping ground for the Biden administration, which has sent 15,000 Haitian immigrants to it since 2020. Those Haitians are among the 309,000 who have arrived in the country and are protected from deportation by the Biden administration, which recently extended them temporary protections through February 2026.
As a result, Ohio has had to put aside $2.5 million just for two years of healthcare to deal with the rapid population increase, and the Springfield City Schools district now must spend 10 times what it was spending prior on translation services for Haitian students. The police department is also on edge due to the increase in Haitian drivers who aren’t familiar with U.S. traffic laws.
The focus on Springfield, though, has turned to the fantastical Republican claims that Haitians are eating people’s pets because that allows Democrats and liberal media to ignore the actual problem. The city’s mayor dismissing the eating pets stories gets plastered all over news stories, but his saying that, “Our safety services are overwhelmed. Our hospitals are overwhelmed. Our school systems are overwhelmed,” does not.
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