On Tuesday night, American watched as former President Donald Trump (endorsed by Texans for Strong Borders in December) and Vice President Kamala Harris took part in what will evidently be the only Presidential Debate between the two candidates after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in late July.
In the debate, President Trump came back to the issue of the border again and again. In a moment that quickly went viral online, he cited reports from Springfield, Ohio, where residents have reported that recent Haitian immigrants have been seen abducting and even eating local pets and waterfowl from the local parks. This seemingly outlandish claim appears to be supported by local reports despite the incredulous reactions from both the debate moderators and Kamala Harris.
Trump went on to state that he believed that over 20 million illegal and inadmissible aliens have entered the United States under the Biden-Harris regime.
On the issue of Springfield, Ohio, a Newsweek opinion piece by Kevin Lynn of the Institute for Sound Public Policy explores the history of Springfield and why this issue of thousands of Haitian migrants descending upon the small city of just 58,000 residents is a microcosm of America’s “Immigration Death Spiral.”
In the piece, Lynn lays out the recent history of Springfield, whose population fell by 30,000 between the 1970 and the early 2000s, and how the CEO of a local manufacturing plant boasted about displacing American workers in a recent interview.
More than 200,000 Haitians have come into the country through the Biden-Harris Administration’s CHNV program, a parole program that has no basis in statute and was recently paused after major concerns were raised about a lack of vetting and several parolees committing violent crimes in the United States.
The story of Springfield is illustrative of why the “Legal Good, Illegal Bad” picture of immigration advanced by establishment Republicans is insufficient for understanding and solving the problem of mass migration into the United States. These Haitians who came in through CHNV did so “legally,” at least according to the Biden Administration, even though they are legally inadmissible for entry into the U.S. Supposedly, they are “vetted” by the Department of Homeland Security. And yet, they still have come into conflict with local residents and are displacing American workers when our workforce participation rate among working-age men is at a historic low point.
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Saturday, 9/14 – LaPorte
Saturday, 9/28 – Waller
Tuesday, 10/14 – Houston (Webster)
Thursday, 10/16 – Katy
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