Haitian migrants now make up roughly a quarter of what used to be a quiet Ohio community, and they’re terrorizing the residents.
Located just 50 miles west from the state capital of Columbus, Springfield has become a city emblematic of the nation’s immigration crisis after more than 20,000 Haitians flooded the town previously home to nearly 60,000 people in 2020.
Testimonies from Springfield residents at a recent city commission meeting went viral this week as neighbors reported shocking details of immigrant behavior from outright harassment to alleged gruesome executions of local wildlife in public spaces.
“These Haitians are running into trash cans. They’re running into buildings. They’re flipping cars in the middle of the street, and I don’t know how like, y’all can be comfortable with this,” one resident named Anthony Harris complained to city officials last month. “They’re in the park, grabbing up ducks by the neck and cutting their heads off and eating them.”
Harris went on to highlight how the local welfare office is being overrun by the non-citizen new arrivals.
“It’s nothing but immigrants over there,” he said.
Another resident identified as Noel complained at an earlier meeting in August how her neighborhood has become “so unsafe” following the surge of Haitians that she wants “out of this town.”
“I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard, throwing trash in my front yard,” she said. “Look at me, I weigh 95
