Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell blamed the migrant crisis for the nation’s growing unemployment after cutting the benchmark interest rate by 0.5 percentage point on Wednesday for the first time since early days of COVID-19.

“If you’re having millions of people come into the labor force, then — and you’re creating 100,000 jobs — you’re going to see unemployment go up,” Powell told reporters, answering a question about the nation’s current monthly job creation.

“So it really depends on what’s the trend underlying the volatility of people coming into the country.”

“We understand there’s been quite an influx across the borders, and that has actually been one of the things that’s allowed the unemployment to rise,” he said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“And the other thing is just the slower hiring rate, which is something we also watch carefully. So it does depend on what’s happening on the supply side.” (Read more from “Fed Chair Jerome Powell Blames Influx of Illegal Aliens for Rising Unemployment Rate” HERE)

Springfield, Ohio is a blue-collar town of roughly 60,000 residents with a story that’s familiar to dozens of Rust Belt communities across the Midwest that have been transformed by job loss, opioids, and now, open migration.

Schuler’s Bakery greets visitors on the south side of town, not far from the interstate, as a relic of resilience having withstood the challenges faced by a declining economy for decades. Founded in 1937, the local sweet spot can now be found in two locations offering customers the kinds of cakes and pastries that define the small-town memories carried for generations long after residents have left.

The donuts are so rich they can make the teeth ache, but the sugar high is immediately crashed when confronted with the image of a town forever changed by the flood of more than 20,000 Haitian migrants. The horizon from the bakery’s front door introduces visitors to a dilapidated community now presented with traffic hazards as Haitians crowd the streets and parking lots of a Rust Belt community turned into Little Haiti.

“They don’t know how to drive,” a local tow truck driver on the southwest side told The Federalist. “They don’t know how to go by our rules.”

The tow truck operator named David declined to offer a last name out of fear of reprisal to his business, but he made clear that the influx of newcomers has brought more havoc than money to the depressed blue-collar community that was already struggling. (Read more from “Democrats’ Immigration Crisis Pushes Ohioans To The Breaking Point: ‘Who’s Protecting Us?’” HERE)

If you were confused on Monday by the sudden proliferation of social media memes featuring AI-generated images of Donald Trump surrounded by kittens and ducks, or saving them from Haitians mobs, let me explain.

Residents of Springfield, Ohio, a town of about 60,000 people, have been complaining recently about the influx of some 20,000 Haitian immigrants over the past three years, which has transformed their community in profound and disturbing ways. Some have claimed the Haitians are stealing people’s cats and dogs and slaughtering them to eat. Others have said they’re grabbing ducks and geese from the local park and decapitating them.

Corporate media were quick to publish stories on Monday “debunking” these claims, citing local police and municipal officials who say there have been no reports of missing pets or decapitated ducks in the park, as if that makes it a “false claim” to say otherwise. Never mind that these officials have no way of knowing whether this is really happening, and that actual residents of Springfield claim that it is indeed happening, the point is to shame anyone who dares to notice the problems that arise when you inundate a community with foreigners from the Third World.

And of course it’s not just the slaughtering of animals that’s a problem in Springfield. The local community health clinic, for example, has been overwhelmed with Haitian patients in recent years, with a 13-fold increase from 2021 to 2023, from 115 to 1,500 according to the New York Times. The public school system had to hire two dozen Haitian-Creole interpreters and now spends ten times more on translation services compared to four years ago because so many school children are Haitians who don’t speak English. Because of the rapid population increase in Springfield, housing costs have skyrocketed, with many local residents priced out because of newly-arrived Haitians willing to pay more in rent. . .

Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has brought up Springfield more than once in recent months, pointing to it as an example of how the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies have hurt American towns and communities, overwhelming them with illegal immigrants caught crossing the border and then released into the interior of the country. (Vance, among others, was dragged by the corporate press for repeating claims about pets being slaughtered and eaten by the Haitians.) The mayor and city manager of Springfield went on Fox News a few months ago and said the same, that the Haitian migrant influx is crippling and overwhelming the city. (Read more from “If You Want Haitians Eating Cats and Decapitating Ducks in Your Town, Vote for Harris” HERE)