{"id":1567,"date":"2024-09-07T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2024-09-07T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T13:12:14","slug":"springfield-residents-warn-pets-and-wildlife-are-being-eaten-by-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/2024\/09\/07\/springfield-residents-warn-pets-and-wildlife-are-being-eaten-by-haitians\/","title":{"rendered":"Springfield Residents Warn Pets and Wildlife Are Being Eaten by Haitians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/aeJ6ID7yrMczwy3WKNnwxg\/f66c9b63-04f8-4497-088e-e951ece85100\/w=800,h=450\" alt=\"Springfield Residents Warn Pets and Wildlife Are Being Eaten by Haitians\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">Image Credit: Facebook Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Residents of an Ohio city that has been flooded with tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Haiti, have been shocked by reports the newcomers are hunting and eating their pets and local wildlife like ducks and geese.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Facebook post from a local community group for Springfield, Ohio has gone viral, after it warned residents to \u201ckeep a close eye\u201d on their pets and on animals in public parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWarning to all about our beloved pets &amp; those around us!!!\u201d the post begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy neighbor informed me that her daughters friend had lost her cat. She checked pages, kennels, asked around, etc. One day she come home from work, as soon as she stepped out of her car, looked towards a neighbors house, where Haitians live, &amp; saw her cat hanging from a branch, &amp; they were carving it up to eat. I\u2019ve been told they are doing this to dogs, they have been doing it at Snyder park with the ducks &amp; geese, as I was told that last bit by Rangers &amp; police. Please keep a close eye on these animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 20,000 Haitians have arrived in Springfield since 2020, increasing the town\u2019s population of 58,000 by over a third. The massive migration was part of a plan to save the city\u2019s economy after the closure of vital industry in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local services, including schools and medical clinics, have been stretched to breaking point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, <em>The Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13808817\/Springfield-Ohio-Haitian-immigration-population-surge.html\">reported<\/a> on \u201cbubbling tensions\u201d in the \u201cdying\u201d city and the fears of locals that they are being replaced by the newcomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBubbling tensions overflowed after a school bus crash caused by a Haitian immigrant veering into the wrong lane killed&nbsp;Aiden Clark, 11, on August 22 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was thrown out the emergency exit as the bus rolled off the road, and crushed as the vehicle went over him. Another 20 students were injured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAngry residents used a July 30 council meeting to vent their feelings about immigrants moving into the town, making wild claims in their speeches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne vocal resident, local Republican committee member Glenda Bailey, claimed the Haitians were \u2018occupying our land\u2019 and had low IQs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2019They have become the occupiers. What they\u2019ve done is they\u2019ve replaced the population in Springfield,\u2019 she claimed, warning they would soon become the majority and kick everyone else out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit: Facebook Post Residents of an Ohio city that has been flooded with tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Haiti, have been shocked by reports the newcomers are hunting and eating their pets and local wildlife like ducks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}