More On Springfield, OH, And Its Haitian Problem

A lot of information in the "Springfield Haitian Situation Summary" from the Aliens In This World blog. But while the author covers and collects links to Haitians eating and sacrificing various animals (including cats and dogs), the most important point to me was how the invasion of the Haitians was the work of corporations seeking low cost labor:

    In recent years, several new factories, warehouses, and other large businesses have been built in Columbus, Ohio, and along the I-70 corridor. Local people in Columbus, Springfield, Dayton, and other municipalities were anticipating getting jobs at these places.

    Instead, the local warehouse/factory staffing agency near me closed down a few years back, leaving the people who used to work in Columbus through them to find jobs somewhere else. I kinda wondered why that happened, but assumed their staffing contracts had fallen through somehow.

    But now I know. Instead, corporate warehouse/factory staffing agencies brought in a huge number of migrant workers from Haiti, and found them cheap group housing in Springfield. These people are not being taught English or assisted on a path to citizenship. Instead, they are being treated the same as the Mexican/Guatemalan migrant workforce in California or Iowa, at big factories and warehouses, which are controlled by the big staffing agencies. They are subject to being deported at any time that they get fired, so they have to work for that one agency they signed up with.

    The idea is that the staffing agency pays rent on apartments and houses, and then places the migrants into them, while the migrants pay the agency monthly for their beds (often cited as $250 for a cot). In California and Iowa, migrants often have to sleep in shifts; this does not seem to be the case in Springfield. However, there are reports of up to twelve grown adults sleeping in a single two-bedroom apartment, which would be illegal for anyone else. But the staffing agencies get a pass, for some reason.

A possible reason that the staffing agency, First Diversity Staffing, is getting a pass is because it looks like the Mayor of Springfield is making substantial amounts of money by renting apartments for the Haitians.

    Just as a reminder, as the author of "Smoke And Mirrors: What Happens After Biden’s Economic Manipulations Disappear?" points out:

    An even greater concern is the fact that all new jobs created for the past several years have been going to illegal aliens, not legal citizens. In fact, since October of 2019 native-born US workers have lost over 1.4 million jobs. Over the same period, migrants illegally residing in the US have gained 3 million jobs. The new narrative among leftists is that this is a good thing; they claim that the US needs illegal immigration and open borders in order to support the jobs market and “bring down inflation.”

    I’m doubtful that the jobs boost to illegals is real, either. More likely the migrant jobs data is rigged because it’s much harder to track and confirm. But these people don’t seem to understand how inflation works – Greater population means higher resource demand, and that helps drive up prices (as we’ve seen in housing). It doesn’t bring prices down, nor does it reduce the existing money supply.

In the end, the support for immigration--legal or otherwise--comes down to money and pliant voters. But mostly money. It is key for the wealth pump that has been transferring wealth from the middle class to the ruling elites for the past 40+ years.