Residents of Springfield, Ohio, expressed serious concerns about crime and the influx of immigrants at a town hall meeting with Vivek Ramaswami on Thursday.
“There are so many immigrants in this town, and they are so heavily subsidised. People are being forced out of their homes, they are losing their jobs,” one resident said. said Inside the city hall.
“We are at a level of desperation,” said another meeting attendee. “We have been insulted and called racists not only in print but to our faces at City Commission meetings.”
One resident recounted a story of how a man chased his daughter with a machete, but police failed to respond quickly enough.
“My daughter was on her way to work when a man with a machete chased her,” her mother recalled.[She] “She called the police. She told them what happened and said she wanted to file a report. Two hours later, the police still hadn't called her or investigated the crime.”
Mayor Rob Lew said Invited He was scheduled to attend a meeting to hear residents' concerns but failed to show up.
“I’ve lived in Springfield, Clark County, for 61 years. [and] “If the city council and everyone wants to be part of the solution, I'm sitting right outside the door and I don't see a single person doing that,” a fourth resident said at the event.
Former President Donald Trump, who has pledged to secure the border and deport illegal immigrants, vowed Wednesday to visit the city in the coming weeks.
“We're getting them out of the country. They came here illegally,” Trump said. “We're getting them out of the country. They're going to be taken back to their countries of origin.”
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