I just returned from Springfield, Ohio

My video reporting from on the ground to come…

Hello everyone. I know it has been a while since my last post. I try to post about once a week here on Substack for my subscribers.

That was a little challenging for me this past week because I was on the ground in Springfield, Ohio, a small manufacturing town which was thrust into international spotlight after former President Donald Trump made reference to social media claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield eating cats and dogs.

I made plans to visit Springfield a few days before Trump’s remarks. I had first read about the town a few months ago following the death an 11-year-old boy named Aiden Clark, who was killed after a Haitian migrant crashed into a school bus. The crash sent Clark flying from the bus and injured 20 other students.

Clark’s death and Springfield became a symbol of President Biden’s failed open border immigration policy, which has allowed millions of immigrants from the Third World to flood into towns and cities across the country.

What made Springfield different was that, unlike Democrat-run cities that have taken immigrants under Biden like New York and Chicago, its residents never voted for mass immigration. Over 60 percent of voters in Clark County, Ohio, which includes Springfield, voted for Donald Trump in 2020. And almost as punishment, the federal government moved 20,000 Haitians to the small town, which itself only had a population of less than 60,000 people. The influx of new arrivals increased the town’s population by over a third, and put a stress on the city’s resources and housing market. Practically overnight, Springfield, where the median income is less than $30,000 a year, was forced to accommodate, house, and feed these new arrivals.

All of this was far more interesting to me than the unsourced claims that a Haitian in Springfield supposedly ate a cat, or stole a goose from the local park. It’s not that I am not disgusted by the story, or believe it to be implausible; animal sacrifice is part of Voodoo and Santeria “religions,” which are common in Afro-Caribbean cultures. In Miami, Florida, where I grew up, severed animal parts and carcasses are often found by train tracks or near bodies of water. For example, in 2022 the Miami Herald reported that “Dead pig, chickens dumped along busy Florida street may be ritual sacrifice.” And last year, CBS News Miami published a story about Miami residents becoming fed up with a “ring of beheaded chicken carcasses.” Animal sacrifice has been a problem that local authorities have failed to address for years, and unfortunately it is just one of the many consequences of Third World immigration. Too many Americans naively believe these immigrants only bring the best aspects of their culture with them to the United States.

Animal sacrifice aside, the immigrant drain on public resources is, at least as in terms of electoral politics, a more compelling story. It’s the angle Trump and Republicans ought to be focused on. Far more Americans, especially working class Americans, are hurt by mass immigration’s effect on the labor market, crime, the housing market, public education, and healthcare than they are by animal sacrifice, as disgusting and uncivilized as it may be.

So that’s what I tried to focus my reporting on in my two-and-a-half days in Springfield. Reporters from all over the country and the world had descended upon the town shortly after I arrived to track down the cat-eating story anyway. If it happened, I figured someone else would get to the bottom of it.

I’ll have more reporting from Springfield in the coming days, including video from on the ground and a look at the welfare and driver’s licenses these Haitians are receiving.