Let me clarify if you were perplexed on Monday by the rapid rise of social media jokes featuring AI-generated photos of Donald Trump surrounded by cubs and ducks or saving them from Haitians crowds.
People of Springfield, Ohio, a community of about 60, 000 individuals, have been complaining just about the flow of some 20, 000 Haitian immigrants over the past three decades, which has transformed their group in deep and disturbing ways. Some claim that Haitians are slaughtering people’s dogs and cats for food. Some claim that they are decapitating ducks and geese from the neighborhood park.
Corporate media released reports on Monday that “debunked” these claims, citing local police and municipal officials who claim there have n’t been any reports of missing pets or decapitated ducks in the park. The purpose of these stories was to shame the people who dare to notice the issues that arise when you inundate a community with foreigners, regardless of the fact that those officials have no way of knowing whether this is actually happening.
And of course it’s not just the slaughtering of animals that’s a problem in Springfield. The local community health clinic, for example, has been overwhelmed with Haitian patients in recent years, with a 13-fold increase from 2021 to 2023, from 115 to 1, 500 , according to the New York Times. Due to the high number of school students being Haitians who do n’t speak English, the public school system had to employ two dozen Haitian-Creole interpreters, and it now spends ten times more on translation services than it did four years ago. Housing costs have skyrocketed because of Springfield’s rapid population growth, with many local residents being forced to move because newly-arrived Haitians are willing to pay more in rent.
Then, last year, a Haitian immigrant allegedly struck a Springfield boy, 11, and injured 23 other children when he crashed his car into a school bus. Residents of Springfield began speaking out more about the Haitian immigrant problem after that.
In recent months, Republican vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance has cited Springfield as an example of how the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies have harmed American towns and communities, overwhelming them with illegal immigrants who cross the border before being released into the country’s interior. The mayor and city manager of Springfield , went on Fox News a few months ago , and said the same, that the Haitian migrant influx is crippling and overwhelming the city.
After Charlie Kirk posted a story about Springfield residents reporting that Haitians have been stealing and butchering cats, dogs, ducks, and geese from a neighborhood municipal park, the cat and duck memes started to spread. This is at least plausible given that it is a well-known practice in Haiti, where the majority of the population practices the vodou religion, which involves, among other things, animal sacrifice.  ,
Whether there is any truth to the myths about cats and ducks or about how much immigration has caused Springfield to be destroyed. Residents have taken to social media to express their disapproval of various bizarre incidents, from unlicensed and uninsured Haitian drivers demanding compensation after causing traffic accidents to grown men taking naked sink baths in women’s restrooms at a grocery store, to homeless Haitian migrants camping out on people’s lawns.
These are real problems, not racist memes. But why are there so many Haitians living in the United States, to start with? because they were allowed in by the Biden-Harris administration. Many Haitians were granted entry through a program that made it possible for those detained after crossing the border without legal grounds to obtain a parole. ” Paroled into the country” is just a jargon-y way of saying they were released from federal custody on their own recognizance, free to go wherever they want in the U. S.
Not only that, but , as Harris herself has bragged, some 300, 000 Haitians were granted Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, by the Biden-Harris administration. TPS is a massive scam of a federal program that allows a large number of foreigners to remain in the country indefinitely. Under the Biden-Harris administration, it has expanded dramatically. Created in 1990 to help refugees fleeing El Salvador’s civil war, TPS was supposed to be, as its name implies, temporary. But that’s not how it has worked out. Because of a civil war, Liberians were given TPS in 1991. After Hurricane Mitch in 1999, Nicaraguaraguans and Hondurans were added to the TPS ranks. And of course, because of the earthquake that hit Haiti in 2011, Haitians were given TPS. The majority of these individuals have never left the United States.
In other words, TPS is temporary in name only. Under successive administrations, both Republican and Democrat, it has become a permanent entitlement. Trump attempted to end TPS for a number of groups during his term in office, including the 200, 000 Salvadorans who had been granted TPS status for an earthquake that occurred in 2001. However, before Biden took office and restored it, Trump’s efforts were delayed by bureaucrats within his own Department of Homeland Security, followed by activists and the courts, and finally by the courts. That means that the 300,000 Haitians who Biden-Harris gave TPS status are still here, pending a full end to the TPS under a incoming Trump administration.  ,
Communities like Springfield will be transformed by the influx of foreigners and customs, many of whom are hostile and incompatible with our country’s way of life. It’s not racist or xenophobic to admit that, it’s simply the truth. People from various cultures and different regions of the world live differently than we do. It should n’t be too much of a charge to have people adopt our culture and way of life if they visit the US. That they refrain, let’s say, from taking ducks and geese from our municipal parks and decapitating them for vodou rituals.
But to do that, and to insist on it, is necessary, and it requires a culture confidence and a desire to preserve the country, which our managerial leadership class merely lacks. Additionally, our leaders actively seek the dissolution of the country and the American people as a whole so that they can rule over a heterogeneous mass of powerless, atomized individuals who have no customs, shared affinities, loyalties, history, and only their betters as their superiors.
And if you believe a few decapitated ducks or cats will stand in for that, reconsider.
