Could Johnstown Have Been Springfield?

I read of Springfield, Ohio, and it’s problems dealing with an influx of Haitian immigrants, and I imagine what Johnstown might look like today if the Myopia 2025 people hadn’t been outed with their plans to bring displaced Afghans here.

Springfield is in the news because the population there is crying out for help in dealing with a reported 15,000 to 20,000 or so Haitians, brought in since 2020 to fill vacant jobs and escape hardship on their home island. We’ve heard that sort of providing-labor-and-escaping-violence pitch used here to justify the Afghan plan.

At least as far as I can tell, the Springfield immigrant planning wasn’t done in secret. But the problems are the same, regardless.

This is not about whether Haitians are eating cats, dogs and other wildlife. I did, however, see an online image of an alleged Haitian man carrying an apparently dead Canada goose by its neck that ran with a story about Haitians eating wildlife in the Springfield area.

I don’t know if Haitians are pruning the local pet population of Springfield and neither do you.

I do know there is a race on by officials to deny, deny, deny any problems.

In some ways, this is similar to officials in Aurora ,Colorado, denying Venezuelan gangs had taken over an apartment building there, despite video evidence by aggrieved residents. Those officials eventually backtracked, at least to admit a gang problem.

I do know that a Haitian immigrant has been convicted in Springfield of charges he drove his mini-van in the wrong lane of the highway and caused a school bus to crash, killing one student,

I do know that the Ohio governor has announced plans to send more police and more money to Springfield to help that town cope with the burden of so many “Temporary Protected Status” immigrants being dumped there.

People will stress the Haitians are here legally and they are, the result of typically misguided federal regulation to solve the world’s problems. Those problems merely have been heaped on U.S. residents in a small Ohio town.

Please note, the limousine liberals don’t want the problem solving regarding immigrants to impact them, thus the outrage, for example, when some illegal immigrants were bused to upscale Martha’s Vineyard in the recent past and promptly were sent away.

Not in my backyard, it’s called.

Springfield residents have complained about many problems with Haitian immigrant behavior, as well as a spike in the cost of things such as auto insurance because of a big rise in accidents. Insurers, unlike the government, can’t create money out of thin air and so have to do the economic thing — raising prices to cover rising costs.

We are to believe the Haitian influx to Springfield has been a winner. But that doesn’t seem to be the opinion of the residents who deal with it on a daily basis.

I guess these residents, much like typical Americans who don’t see the rosy economy and cost-of-living picture painted by Kamala and Joe, are just too stupid to understand how well they are doing.