I probably would not have gone in the direction this thread went, without further info...or maybe I would have.
But the crux of this question, regardless of what the invaders are eating, is this:
How is this community, how is Ohio and how is the nation and it's citizens better off by being invaded by 70 IQ average Haitians?
Here black libertarian economist Thomas Sowell debunks the notion of race and IQ.
Some of the takeaways include the fact that language barriers often skew IQ tests as well as poverty and that at various times Irish or Jews or other groups were testing as "low IQ" when they really were not.
One of the videos posted in this thread created by a
conservative vlogger showed a pastor who talked about how happy he was with the new Hatian congregants including one who was running his sound mixing board. (Not an easy feat for someone with low intelligence). The same video showed a manager at a manufacturing plant who was happy with the Haiians because they "showed up consistently for work on time and were not on drugs." Some of the white people in another video in this thread with MAGA hats were on welfare. Who do you suppose had the higher IQ if you're going to go by that?
Springfield Ohio lost over 20,000 people since 1986 and now 20,000 new people have come to what was a dying down. There are certainly problems especially with driving. The times when I visited the Carribean I did
not drive because they drive on the left hand side of the road. Springfield Ohio doesn't have much in terms of public transportation. (Also brought out in a video posted here). So I agree that's a problem. And language barriers are also an issue. But it's wrong to assume that everybody fleeing Haiti is poor. Everybody is
not poor and it's the people who have means who are the ones best positioned to make the journey to the U.S.
I think tax money being given to the migrants should stop especially with them being able to work in factories. I think the reason some of them have $3,000 on their EBT card is because they aren't having to spend that every month because they have factory jobs and the money is accumulating. I posted another story from over a decade ago that explained how this could happen and there were no immigrants involved in that story.
On the flip side, check out this story about law mills shutting down because of tight labor market exacerbated by the high cost of housing.
Could those mills be manned by people who don't mind moving multiple families into a "fixer upper" house? Empty abandoned homes in Springfield Ohio are being renovated and that's a good thing. People are complaining about the short term housing crunch, but long term nobody is helped by houses sitting empty for decades.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm an immigration agnostic. I can be convinced either way. I am
very concerned about the
verified stories of the Venezuelan gang Tran De Aragua. (See:
https://apnews.com/article/tren-de-aragua-gang-venezuela-us-a12c8fee9dc4a0ca73769ea893e09e53) Why aren't we talking more about that as opposed to the Haitian cat story? Could it be because Trump and Biden are both more directly culpable for what has happened in Venezuela due to U.S. sanctions and attempted coups that happened under both presidencies? I dunno. The Tran De Aragua gang worries me. Things could touch off between them and black gangs like the Gansta Disciples in Chicago. Haitians eating cats would bother me if I ever saw proof it happened. Haitians eating ducks or geese? Yeah...not so much.
Final note. Despite claims from the resident Trump cheerleading squad, I don't dismiss odd facts just because Trump said them. He turned out ot be 100% regarding Kamala Harris supporting transgender surgeries for illegal immigrant prisoners (I posted about that with few people responding) and he
may be right about Kamala Harris "turning black" and I posted that as well with few people responding. I guess everybody just really loves cats.