Joshua Lisec
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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And one of the better known spots that they stopped and built kind of basically a migrant camp was in Del Rio, Texas, across the Rio Grande.
An immense trial of great suffering.
Now, these Haitians were promised the American dream, specifically Springfield, Ohio.
People that I spoke to, I interviewed dozens of people who are, I would say, the most in the know with war,
Why did so many Haitians come to Springfield?
Where did they come from?
I spoke with Haitians also, and many of them believed that Springfield had great housing, great jobs, great neighborhoods, great community, great, all of these things, okay?
Sort of this 10 out of 10 dream was pitched to the Haitian people who were migrating up through, during the Biden administration.
Well, Springfield, like many B, C, and D tier cities in America, unfortunately, but also in Ohio, has suffered from all of the prior administration's immigration policies and globalization of the economy, resulting in jobs getting shipped out, factories going out of business, many large businesses and smaller businesses that had depended on those businesses
going out of business.
So this sort of catastrophic cascade, then you have the opioid crisis, you have addiction, you have Ohio being, I believe it is the state with the highest per capita drug overdose rate, largely because of the interstates, Interstate 75 and Interstate 70 that intersect in Ohio, near me actually, here in Dayton, Ohio.
And all of these ills were piling up on one another.
You had something between 20 and 30,000 Springfielders leaving over the last 40 years, sort of this cascading effect of moving out.
Formerly, Springfield was one of the most prosperous cities in the United States.
It was a great city that played host to all manner of factories and inventors.
And there's museums still all around Clark County
showing the fantastic history of this once glorious city.
So Springfield was a city that was struggling to kind of, what are we going to be here in the future?
And then you get, depending on who you talk to, between 15,000 and 34,000 Haitian migrants, uniquely unassimilated to the American way of life, kind of dropped on the town.
And at that time, Springfield was only 60,000 people.
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