State Cites False Victory in Helping Haitian Migrants, Continues to Ignore Heritage Citizens

SPRINGFIELD - In a presentation to the Springfield Commissioners on Tuesday, March 11, Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson cited success in bringing down the massively increased number of road side accidents and an increase in primary care visits among the Haitian migrant population, rather than straining the hospital networks. Despite the warm handshakes and congratulatory smiles from state and local administrative leaders, heritage citizens continue to be ignored over the needs of replacement labor.

As part of a state funded initiative, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine launched initiatives to assist the local government of Springfield by deploying State Highway Patrol into the city, which led to state decryption services locking out citizens from listening to police scanners. The state additionally leveraged support to the Haitian migrants through additional taxpayers funded initiatives for mobile health clinic trailers and VR driving simulators to assist Haitians in learning how to drive. 

The state has additionally expended funds to develop a Haitian Creole language driver’s education curriculum, as well as instructional videos featuring well-known Haitian cartoon character Ti Joel.

“With our Haitian community, our simulators are able to track their weaknesses, so we’re able to track common mistakes that these drivers are making in the simulator,” Wilson said. “We then take that data and turn it into an instructional video in Haitian Creole — one of our animated videos — to address that specific issue."

Despite these taxpayers expenses, problems persist in Springfield, with citizens taking to social media to share out police reports and publicly accessible records illustrating the continued problem of Haitian drivers, with reports citing alleged offenses of driving under the influence, lack of proper documentation and the continued issue of Clark County judicial systems failing to prosecute crimes.

Despite these continued failures, the state and local government continue to double down on the cited Welcome NGO plan to continue to funnel and support low-pay laborers into the area at the expense of heritage Americans, taking American jobs away from Springfield workers. The city's latest endeavor has involved sending out a survey to inquire on what additional services and funding opportunities may exits within the Haitian community.

According to Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson, one of the bigger reasons for launching the survey initiative is to combat narratives surrounding the Haitian community in Springfield, essentially offering a state funded PR campaign to support their placement. According to Wilson, without this data, people will “insert whatever narrative they want into it, and you can’t counter it.”

“I believe wholeheartedly that if we do this right and we’re actually able to get — I’d like to say — mass participation, as much participation as possible from our Haitian friends doing the survey, it will actually give us information that we can use to ... argue our case for why our Haitian brothers and sisters are of value to this community ...” Wilson said.

The Haitian survey is being rolled out in conjunction with Wright State University, located in Clark County with some ulterior motives. The document totals six pages, including questions related to gender, age, parent status, marital status, education level, health insurance, healthcare, occupational skills, jobs, driving ability and training, housing and reasons for coming to the U.S. It also asks what type of support Haitian immigrants need in the Ohio.

It is suggested the data related to occupational skills and training could be used for further funding to the Haitians in supporting certification programs for people close to a degree, who may be “three classes at Clark State away from being a nurse in the hospital and working with this community,” said Lee Hannah, political science professor at Wright State, solidifying a cross-beneficial approach between state sanctioned narrative control and continued subsidization up to and including post-secondary education for migrants who have never paid into the tax system.

There is currently no record of any survey from the 'representative government' in Ohio or Springfield targeting the needs or heritage citizens and there is no current discussion or plan to support those citizens to the same capacity they are currently paying to support their own labor side replacement. There have been no initiatives to leverage tax dollars to create staffing pipelines to jobs for heritage Springfielders as the Welcome NGO has demanded of Springfield government officials for foreigners.