Summary of the situation in Haiti in Springfield | Aliens in this world

In recent years, several new factories, warehouses and other large businesses have been built in Columbus, Ohio, and along the I-70 corridor. Locals in Columbus, Springfield, Dayton and other communities have expected to find jobs in these locations.

Instead, the local warehouse/factory placement agency near me closed a few years ago, forcing the people who worked through them in Columbus to find work elsewhere. I wondered why that happened, but assumed their placement contracts had somehow fallen through.

But now I know. Instead, corporate warehouse/factory placement agencies brought in a large number of migrant workers from Haiti and found them cheap group homes in Springfield. These people are not given English lessons or help with the path to citizenship. Instead, they are treated the same as the Mexican/Guatemalan migrant workers in California or Iowa, in large factories and warehouses controlled by the big placement agencies. They can be deported at any time they are fired, so they have to work for the one agency they signed up with.

The idea is that the agency pays rent for apartments and houses and then houses the migrants, while the migrants pay the agency monthly for their beds (often $250 for a crib). In California and Iowa, migrants are often required to sleep in shifts; this does not appear to be the case in Springfield. However, there are reports of up to 12 adults sleeping in a two-bedroom apartment, which would otherwise be illegal for anyone else. But the agencies somehow get a free pass.

When you hear staffing agencies described as “contract labor,” that’s what people are talking about. It’s not the way staffing agencies used to work, and it’s different from how office workers are placed. Instead, it’s a total system.

The agency at fault here is called First Diversity Staffing. I don’t recall ever coming across this company name before, and I used to be a temp and knew the different companies. Yet they have offices in Springfield, Lima, Sidney, Gastonia…anywhere in small towns with manufacturing or warehouses.

(Gee, I wonder what they do. “Help,” according to their website. Yuck. I wonder why they don’t have a website in Haitian French. Apparently their employees don’t need to visit their website.)

In Springfield, new one-story, handicapped-accessible duplexes for the elderly and disabled have been turned over to able-bodied Haitian migrant workers in an effort to house everyone. The fact that many elderly and disabled people are being left in the poor or inadequate housing they have struggled with for years, after waiting years on the list, has caused much anger.

Employment agencies offer vans to take people to work (whether they have to pay for it or not, reports vary). Often these vans are driven by people who are also migrants and do not speak English, but who work more directly for the agency.

In Springfield, these drivers always seem to honk their horns when they arrive at a house to pick up people, and they do this for five or ten minutes if the workers don’t come fast enough to meet them. It’s obvious that the neighbors who don’t work for the agency don’t like this.

The agency also provides translators to help with some transactions (such as obtaining food stamp cards, or going to the DMV and getting a “temporary” international driver’s license, which Haitians renew every 45 days without any proof of an international or Haitian driver’s license), but not with other tasks (such as going to the bank, grocery store, or gas station). Haitian French is not very understandable to most other French speakers, let alone people who don’t know French.

Whether it is a regular temporary permit or an international/foreign permit, drivers are not allowed to drive on a temporary basis alone. They are expected to have someone with a permanent license in the passenger seat.

You are also not allowed to buy or rent a car without a valid driver’s license. Yet Haitians without a license go to car dealerships and rental companies to rent a new car and drive away.

There’s also a reason why homes in Springfield are cheap and available for rent.

Since the 90s, Springfield has not been the best place to live. There is a lot of crime, a lot of murders, a lot of disappearances, a lot of deranged drug users roaming the streets, a lot of Fentanyl deaths.

But all the residents of Springfield, black and white, seem to agree that the Haitians are a menace to live with. The number you hear is that there are 8-10 traffic accidents every day, almost always caused by Haitians who are not driving. Many people have been run over and killed. Power lines have been downed in high speed accidents.

In addition, many Haitian migrant males routinely threaten other people unless they are carrying weapons. Overt petty theft in grocery stores is apparently common. One video reports that Springfield residents are now shopping all the way to Urbana because Springfield businesses have too many fearsome Haitian customers. Even locals who have volunteered or done mission work in the poorest parts of Haiti and who speak some Haitian French are pretty clear that a fair number of these migrant workers are actually young male wannabe gangs, and some have formed part-time gangs.

The general attitude of most Haitian immigrants in Springfield is considered rude (which is a really strong word in this part of Ohio, and the number one way to not be accepted when you’re new to town). I’m sure many of these people are nice, but they’re not the ones who make an impression.

As you can see, eating cats, dogs, protected geese and city ducks is just the tip of the iceberg of problems. The agencies just want cheap housing and cheap non-citizen workers, and they don’t care how it affects anything outside their agency contracts.

The only good thing is that Springfield residents who were never interested in politics, or who assumed they were the only ones who felt angry, are now uniting across neighborhoods, color, economic levels, political parties, etc. They are united in their whining and they support each other’s positions.

On the other hand, the Catholic parishes of Springfield have managed to organize a Creole French mass on Sundays at 3:30 pm at St. Raphael, and of course many Catholics don’t mind going to mass in another language if it fits into the schedule. But it seems quite difficult to find out what else is going on to help the Haitian people from the churches, possibly because all the local churches are trying to work together to make it happen and the “Nehemiah Foundation” (the interdenominational group) has a website that is not very informative.

I’ll be linking more videos I’ve seen with local Springfield people. You can read more about them later, or in a post next to this one.

BlazeTV: “ Springfield, Ohio Locals TALK ABOUT Migration Crisis ” — This is a really good long interview with several locals. They’re actually from Tremont City in German Township, but their kids go to Springfield Schools, and they pay school taxes for that.

Empty Pockets Garage, James: “Springfield, Ohio Migrant Issue Not FAKE NEWS.” One of the first Springfield videos I saw. The gentleman is a disabled mechanic whose brother is also disabled and lives in Springfield. He talks about their personal experiences and why it’s good to wear.

Also, “Springfield, Ohio Disappearing Ducks Allegations” – Actual video of a park where no ducks are seen, when normally there are ducks and geese everywhere.

The Jimmy Dore Show: “The TRUTH about Immigrants in Springfield Ohio”

Cinema Shogun: “IT’S REAL! Springfield, Ohio duck rescuer SPEAKS OUT about missing animals!” – The host talks about how left-wing people online now accept that the evidence shows Haitians are doing bad things, and that left-wing people are now trying to say it’s okay to sacrifice animals, or to illegally steal and eat animals. Refers to a story in the Daily Mail.

Vodou/voudoun includes sacrifices of birds (chickens are usually preferred, but ducks and geese fall well within the specifications), pigs, goats, and dogs. Santeria is followed by some Haitians and includes sacrifices of cats, dogs, pigs, and other animals.

Haitians in Haiti are known to grill or barbecue cats and dogs to eat.

People grill cats in Dayton, Ohio, in 2023, as documented by an African-American neighbor. Video attached to Peter Rufo’s article “The Cat Eaters of Ohio.” Neighbors stand by the video’s veracity.

Story by Matt Vespa. Comments link to “Haitian Do Eat Cat Lol,” a 9-year-old video of a Haitian in Haiti skinning and cooking a cat over a charcoal pit. Cats are reportedly considered a delicacy there.

Crowder Bits: “Import Haiti, Become Haiti: Ohio Pet Eating Edition”

It is not necessary for everyone to do this to have a big impact on the neighborhood.

Comedian Anthony Harris (who is black, if it matters) ended up doing a lot of investigative journalism in his city, and he’s the guy in the red hoodie who spoke at the Springfield City Council meeting that went viral. He also got his car hit by one of those Haitian drivers without a license.

He is running for mayor in an attempt to change things.

Conservative Twins: “Black Man Familiar With Haitian Culture Explains Eating Pets, Its Connection to Voodoo”

Interestingly, PETA, the ASPCA, and other organizations that are usually big on animal rights are very quiet on this issue. The Wounded Paw Project is one of the few animal activism groups in the U.S. that openly opposes animal sacrifice, although they don’t mention Islam (also interesting).

The Off Topic Show: Short story about how Springfield is “not a place you want to be” unless you like being threatened with machetes.