If you were confused on Monday by the sudden proliferation of social media memes featuring AI-generated images of Donald Trump surrounded by kittens and ducks, or saving them from Haitians mobs, let me explain.
Residents of Springfield, Ohio, a town of about 60,000 people, have been complaining recently about the influx of some 20,000 Haitian immigrants over the past three years, which has transformed their community in profound and disturbing ways.
Some have claimed the Haitians are stealing people's cats and dogs and slaughtering them to eat. Others have said they're grabbing ducks and geese from the local park and decapitating them.
Corporate media were quick to publish stories on Monday "debunking" these claims, citing local police and municipal officials who say there have been no reports of missing pets or decapitated ducks in the park, as if that makes it a "false claim" to say otherwise. Never mind that these officials have no way of knowing whether this is really happening, and that actual residents of Springfield claim that it is indeed happening, the point is to shame anyone who dares to notice the problems that arise when you inundate a community with foreigners from the Third World.
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. The public school system had to hire two dozen Haitian-Creole interpreters and now spends ten times more on translation services compared to four years ago because so many school children are Haitians who don't speak English. Because of the rapid population increase in Springfield, housing costs have skyrocketed, with many local residents priced out because of newly-arrived Haitians willing to pay more in rent.
And then last year, a Haitian migrant killed an 11-year-old Springfield boy and injured 23 other children when he crashed his car into a school bus. After that, residents began speaking out more about the Haitian immigrant problem in Springfield.
Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has brought up Springfield more than once in recent months, pointing to it as an example of how the Biden-Harris administration's immigration policies have hurt American towns and communities, overwhelming them with illegal immigrants caught crossing the border and then released into the interior of the country. (Vance, among others, was dragged by the corporate press for repeating claims about pets being slaughtered and eaten by the Haitians.) 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.
The cat and duck memes sprang up after Charlie Kirk posted on X about Springfield residents reporting that Haitians have been stealing and butchering cats and dogs, as well as ducks and geese from a local municipal park, which is at least plausible since it's a common practice in Haiti, where a majority of the population practices the vodou religion that involves, among other things, animal sacrifice. It's also unlikely that large numbers of Springfield residents are simply making these stories up.
But whatever the truth behind the cats and ducks memes, the reality is that Springfield is being destroyed by mass immigration. Residents have taken to social media to complain about all kinds of bizarre incidents, from unlicensed and uninsured Haitian drivers demanding payment 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.
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