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HenryMakow.com – Sept 14, 2024

Former Ohio State Representative Kyle Koehler describes the outrageous subsidies and privileges Haitians receive and the strain they are putting on social services and education in Springfield OH.

Speech by Kyle Koehler – (henrymakow.com)

My is Kyle Koehler and I am a former State Representative for Springfield Ohio and the Clark County area. I am currently a candidate for the State Senate covering Clark, Greene and Clinton counties.

There are going to be several very good speakers sharing tonight. I am going to tell you right now; I will not be remembered as someone delivering good news. Instead, I am bringing some bad news.

Chairman Dan Cecil has asked if I would share what is going in my hometown of Springfield and the Haitian REFUGEES that have settled in our community.

Over the last four years Haitians who are crossing the border (or in fact, flown to our country as refugees)… have been given Temporary Protected Status by the Federal Government. Under the Biden/Harris administration – they not only are protected but they are given between $600 to $1600/MONTH on Debit Cards through the Refugee Cash Assistance program and allowed access to all the public assistance programs available to US citizens.

Since early 2020, a temporary staffing company in Springfield, started actively bringing Haitian refugees to our city. First a few hundred, then thousands. As of this month, our local Job and Family Services has registered over 20,000 Haitian refugees in our county and city. Springfield, which had a steady population of 58,000…now has an additional 20,000 new residents in and around Springfield. 20,000 people in just under four years.

Our public school system (with just over 8,000 students) suddenly has over 1,600 non-english speaking students. Nineteen-year-old Haitian men and women are being enrolled as high-school freshman and are in class with 13-year-old boys and girls.

 

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