... which may nor may not even be true. Point is--IT'S A DISTRACTION.
What is more critical is that the metropolitan Springfield area has a population of 57,910 in 2024 (https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/ohio/springfield).
Upon that small town has been dumped roughly 15.000 Haitians over the last three years (see Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/ and AP https://apnews.com/article/springfield-ohio-haitian-influx-governor-dewine-f5a552d7ebc6e246882dca96a39a3aaa).
15,000 on 57,910 is a jump of 25.9% in the city's population. That's huge! Population normally goes up or town less than 5% per year. Having it jump that much, that fast, is not absorbable.
According to the AP article, the State gave Springfield $2.5M for "... education and training for drivers, to pay for more vaccines and health screenings in schools, and to enhance translation services ...". A measly $2.5M to handle the influx.
$2,500,000 / 15,000 = $166.67 per person. That's it. Earmarked for drivers's ed, vaccines (!!!), and health screenings. Not even CLOSE to what it would cost.
And--where the heck are these people supposed to live?
It's the numbers, the sheer numbers, that matters here.
No town can absorb that many people that fast.! Even if they were all saintly choir boys eating nothing but Kraft Mac and Cheese, it would be disruptive, and that's the point. Any additional crime and cat-eating is only icing on the destructive cake that the Deep State is trying to bake.
The town is a microcosm of what is happening everywhere in the USA. It gets people questioning and asking what the heck is going on. It is not so much the sudden increase in population but, a huge culture shock because, most all the new people popping up know or care NOTHING about culture of the USA. Eating animals that we consider to be domesticated PETS, and local pond/lake birds being one of them. Hunting is not legal in parks, it just isnt, if a citizens went in and killed a bird to take it home a cook, they would be arrested on the spot and the entire town would be shaming them. Same as when they grope women on the street. Where some come from, that is allowed.. here it is NOT allowed socially or legally, it is a big NO. USA is NOT the country they came from, they better learn quick that, what they get away with in their Country of origin is NOT wanted or allowed here. If people do NOT speak up and just let them get away with it then, do we really have a Country?
I agree it's twofold: quantity and quality. I just fear that focussing on the quality is losing sight of the quantity, and brings the potential criticism of "you just raciss".
Even if all the refugees were from, say, Scotland (with a compatible culture and shared language) it would still be a problem.
You can't suddenly dump an extra 25% of the population on a small town without serious fallout.
It would still be an issue, regardless of culture of the newcomers.
This is true.