Springfield, Ohio Isn’t The Only Town Facing A Haitian Migrant Crisis

At the ABC debate, former President Trump turned the nation's attention to a small town of 60,000 struggling to navigate an influx of 20,000 Haitian migrants. Social media has exploded with reports of migrants stealing household pets and park ducks and geese to eat them, but Springfield's city manager and police department have disputed these reports. Other issues reported include an extreme spike in driving accidents, crime, and housing costs.

While Springfield remains in the national spotlight, it's illuminating a growing phenomenon, not at all confined to Ohio.

Breitbart News reports:

While the media focuses on the woes of Springfield, Ohio, and its recent flood of Haitian migrants putting pressure on the small town, other small towns are experiencing similar problems. One of them is Charleroi, Pennsylvania, nestled on the banks of the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh in the western part of the state.

WPXI-TV reported in March that the rising number of immigrant children has stretched the local schools to the breaking point as administrators and teachers toil to educate migrant children, many of whom do not speak English, and some of whom have never gone to school in their entire young lives.

The school district's superintendent asserted that they'd been forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on translators, spending $400,000 in the last year and anticipating a cost of $300,000 next year. Schools are also running out of physical room as a result of migrant children, and now must find the resources for major renovations and new construction.

According to local politicians, the town hasn't received any funding to help them navigate the situation, and is being forced to stretch their already limited budget to address it.

In a phone interview, Councilman Larry Celaschi said, “You know, the sad part about all this thing, and, honestly, I don't care, I'll shoot straight from the hip. Frankly, I wish I could come face-to-face for 60 seconds with, OK, with whoever was behind all this and bringing the immigrants in to Charleroi for only one reason — [to ask] where the hell's the money that should be coming to Charleroi, OK? Why was it all dumped on us and we're not being funded with anything, OK? And, again, we can't even make ends meet with our budget. And so now, where are we gonna get this extra revenue to pay for them? And then we've got to do all these things to accommodate the immigrants. That's bullshit.”

In addition to the financial burden, the foreign newcomers have created other major obstacles for the locale.

Breitbart News continues:

According to the activist group America-2100, the rural town has suffered a 2,000-percent increase in its population of Haitian migrants — and crime and traffic altercations have soared as a result.

Residents have been flooding social media with reports that migrants are attacking people on the street and mugging them, stealing cars, and ending up in traffic accidents throughout the area.

The Biden-Harris administration gave over 100,000 Haitian migrants Temporary Protected Status (TPS), shielding them from deportation.