Refugees/migrants in Ohio

[Natural510]

Originally Posted by Karl Lagos

Illegal immigrant friendly? That's a felony.

Did he say anything about illegal immigration?

[KathrynAragon]

All I can tell you is that when I was looking at houses a coupla weeks ago, in the Cincinnati area, I saw many crews of Hispanic guys in construction fields. I have no idea whether they were legally here or not. Hey, I'm from Texas and it felt a lot like home to me.

[robertbrianbush]

Originally Posted by ClydeChefM

Ohio is leading in missing children by alot ...Chicago has more press but seriously a thousand in one month is worse then whatever Chicago talks about

This is an immigration thread.

[PerryMason614]

Oklahoma just passed a law where illegals can be jailed. I think that's great. Put them to work on a prison farm. Make them work for nothing other than prison pay. Then I would tell them they will be relieved of the responsibility after 90 days, provided they self deport. If they don't self deport, they continue to work for free.

If the feds won't solve the problem the states will have to do it themselves.

[cheech14]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

Oklahoma just passed a law where illegals can be jailed. I think that's great. Put them to work on a prison farm. Make them work for nothing other than prison pay. Then I would tell them they will be relieved of the responsibility after 90 days, provided they self deport. If they don't self deport, they continue to work for free.

If the feds won't solve the problem the states will have to do it themselves.

So extortion and slavery?

[Natural510]

Well, fortunately refugees aren’t illegal immigrants and therefore won’t become prison slaves in Oklahoma.

[PerryMason614]

Originally Posted by cheech14

So extortion and slavery?

Self deport to California or New York then. They're the ones who claim to love illegals.

[PerryMason614]

Originally Posted by Natural510

Well, fortunately refugees aren’t illegal immigrants and therefore won’t become prison slaves in Oklahoma.

Someone going back and forth to Somalia is not a refugee, it's a scammer working the system. Yes, I would throw them out.

[WVNomad]

Originally Posted by Natural510

I don’t want this to be a political discussion & definitely don’t want any opinions of those people from the toxic Politics forum on this website, but genuinely curious about how the refugee situation looks throughout the state these days. Springfield has seen an influx of 5-10,000 Haitian refugees in the past 2-3 years, which is a major change for a city of 60,000. Is this happening with them or refugees from other countries into the state right now?

Sadly, your calls to avoid the toxicity seen frequently in the Politics forum seems to have fallen on deaf ears by some of the posters here. It is an unfortunate sign of our times.

To answer your question, I live in the Cincinnati burbs, and I haven't seen indication that the city has been materially impacted by the arrival of refugees. Cincinnati is obviously larger (and I assume more diverse) than Springfield, so it might be more visibly apparent to the man on the street there that the demographics of Springfield are changing, whereas here folks immigrating from other countries might blend in more easily. I don't recall seeing any newspaper accounts, or local tv news reports on schools, social welfare agencies, etc. being stressed or over burdened by large umber of refugees. This are just my observations---they may or may not be an accurate reflection of what is transpiring here.

[cheech14]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

Someone going back and forth to Somalia is not a refugee, it's a scammer working the system. Yes, I would throw them out.

That's... not how anything works.