Trump Pledges to Visit Ohio Town Suffering from Immigration Crisis

“In the next two weeks, I’m going to Springfield and then to Aurora,” former President Donald Trump announced at a campaign rally in Long Island, New York, this week. “We’re going to take care of Ohio, and we’re going to take care of Colorado, and we’re going to take care of every single state in the union. They’re all under siege,” he continued. Trump joked, “You may never see me again, but that’s okay. I gotta do what I gotta do. ‘Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield.’”

Over the past three years, the sleepy Ohio town of Springfield has seen an influx of approximately 20,000 Haitian immigrants, who were granted a “Temporary Protected Status” by the Biden-Harris administration. The administration’s immigrant dump has been responsible for increased traffic accidents, skyrocketing rent and housing prices, overwhelmed and crippled social services, and, in at least one instance, the death of an 11-year-old American boy. Schools and health centers have been burdened, with both spending tens of thousands — and in some cases hundreds of thousands — of dollars annually on Haitian-Creole interpreters.

Trump addressed this point, saying, “So the mayor of Springfield … instead of saying, ‘We’re getting them all out! We’re getting them out!’ He says very simply, ‘We’re hiring teachers to teach them English.’ Could you believe it? ‘We are hiring interpreters so when they go to school and take the place of our children in school, we have an interpreter.’” The former president asked, “What the hell is wrong with our country?”

The crisis in Springfield has garnered national attention thanks to Trump and his native Ohioan running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R). During last week’s presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump mentioned reports of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating household pets. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” the 45th president declared. He continued, “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” While Harris and mainstream media pundits dismissed Trump’s claim that cats and dogs were being eaten — debate moderators from ABC News “fact-checked” Trump on this point during the debate — video evidence has been found of skinned cats being barbecued, and recordings have been released of multiple reports to police, complaining of immigrants eating pets or slaughtering ducks and geese in local parks.

Vance commented, “Housing shortages have caused rents to skyrocket, hospitals are overrun, schools are ill-equipped to teach students who don’t speak English, and the roads are unsafe as unlicensed drivers have caused a massive increase in roadway accidents.” He continued, “The American media didn’t give a damn about any of this until President Donald Trump mentioned Springfield at the debate. … I’m going to continue speaking up for my constituents and the disastrous effects that Kamala Harris’s open border policies are having on their lives.”

Trump also pledged to visit Aurora, Colorado, where Venezuelan gang members have been taking over entire apartment complexes and shutting down streets. Armed members of the Tren de Aragua gang were reported to have forced property managers out of buildings and gone door to door themselves collecting rent money from terrified residents.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman (R) faulted the Biden-Harris administration for the illegal immigrants’ rampage, noting that Aurora had refused “to participate in the migrant crisis; we were not going to provide taxpayer support, and we were not even going to be a conduit for federal dollars.” He added, “These people didn’t just go there on their own; somebody put them there. Who made this decision to put them there?” He speculated that the Denver suburb was being targeted by the “federal government, perhaps using some of our local nonprofit partners as a conduit.”

At his Long Island rally this week, Trump said, “We’re getting them of our country. They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country. We’re getting them out. They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came. I will protect our country. I will protect our country.” According to a recent survey, 54% of Americans (including Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters) support Trump’s mass deportation proposals. This is up from 51% earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Harris has refused to address the immigration crisis that she and President Joe Biden have facilitated. Asked what “struck” him about Harris’s response when Politico White House correspondent Eugene Daniels probed the vice president in an interview on how to handle the Springfield situation, Daniels said, “That she didn’t answer. I think that was probably the thing that struck me the most. Because I was trying to get at, there is an underlying concern that people who live in Springfield have that has nothing to do with race, right?” He continued, “So, I was trying to see if she believed that the federal government had a role in it. And, instead, she took the opportunity to talk about the racist conspiracy theories that have been spread by both former President Donald Trump and his running mate.” Daniels also quipped that Harris is “pretty good at dodging” questions.