Locals Say Migration Imposes Two-Tier Society on Springfield, Ohio

Ordinary Americans in Springfield, Ohio, openly describe how elite-directed migration has skewed their economy, destabilized their neighborhoods, and created a two-tier society that favors migrants over Americans.

Federal payments to migrants “makes it harder for people like me — or somebody else who doesn’t get [government-]assisted living — to find affordable housing at a decent rate,” one woman told Twitter journalist Tyler Oliveira. She added:

Honestly, in my opinion, it’ll be surprised if I don’t get kicked out so they can boost up the rate on this place. They’ll probably fix it, get it where it’s looking better, and boost the rate up on it. They’ll pay $1,200 a month, and [now] I pay $775  … Yeah, they’ve been doing it around here quite a bit. Honestly, the neighborhood has gotten a lot of Haitians in it here [since] about two years back.

“I know people who’ve applied for work a lot of these same places that are hiring [government-supported] migrants … but they’re not getting jobs,” resident William Monaghan told Breitbart News. He added:

It’s definitely a push to hire migrants. A t a big company near here that makes [equipment] for computers  … everybody that works on the [production] line is Haitian, and there’s one interpreter that serves different lines.

The inflow of migrants also allows employers to stop hiring and training marginal Americans, such as people recovering from drug addictions, or who are still angry at the multi-decade decline in wages. {snip}

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The city government is exempting many Haitians from laws against bad drivers and from zoning laws, said 62-year-old Cindy Peck.

She said she was threatened with arrest after protesting for months the loud operations of an illegal auto repair shop in a suburban garage across the street from her apartment building:

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Much of the city’s welfare and aid agencies are overwhelmed by migrants, pushing Americans out of line, another resident told Oliveira:

I don’t even have assistance right now because I keep getting denied. I’m homeless, I’m jobless, I’m sleeping on friends’ couches because I can’t get government assistance because I come from the wrong country, apparently.

The city’s response to the migration is shaped by class and wealth, Peck told Breitbart News.

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“You’ve got more Haitians in these kinds of [lower-income] areas in Springfield … they’re not in as abundance as the rich neighborhoods,” the female renter told Oliveira.

The migrant influx began when city officials worked with local business owners to recruit Mexicans on the southern border, Monaghan said. But that trickle turned into a flood of Haitians, he said, adding: “The rich have mobilized [migrants] to destroy the working and middle classes.”

“The government’s more worried about bringing in Haitians from to live here than they are to take care of their own citizens,” another resident told Oliveira, adding:

We have veterans, veterans, people who went and put their lives at risk for us, sleeping on the streets because the Haitians are more important. I have nothing against immigrants. We don’t. If you want to go someplace to try and build a better life for yourself, do that. But for our government to totally throw aside national citizens, people that were born and raised here … they’re treating us like we’re the trash.

“This is our country, it’s our government,” she said.

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