Springfield, Ohio man tells city council Haitians are taking ducks from parks, cutting their heads off, eating them

At a Springfield City Commission meeting in late August, a resident shared concerns, stating that Haitian illegal immigrants are “in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them.”

The allegations come as Springfield has struggled to cope with a massive influx of 20,000 Haitian illegal immigrants in recent years, dramatically straining city resources and increasing homelessness in the area. Another resident at a city commission meeting recently described how her neighborhood is no longer safe due to the aggressiveness of Haitian illegal immigrants, who have harassed her and trespassed on her property.

"I don’t understand what you expect of us as citizens,” the resident said at a city council meeting. “I understand they’re here under temporary protected status and you’re protecting them… but who’s protecting us? If we’re protecting them, who’s protecting me?”

The Haitian immigrants may have been given the protected status under the Biden-Harris administration's parole program, which allows migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to seek entry into the US if they have a US-based sponsor. However, there have been concerns about the program having widespread fraud.

Despite these concerns, the Department of Homeland Security recently resumed its parole program, which allows Haitians and other immigrants to come into the US, often without proper vetting.