Singer John Legend came under fire after telling Springfield, Ohio residents to “embrace” the 20,000 Haitian migrants who were relocated to their city, which is also the singer’s hometown.
The comments came after residents have been speaking out against the negative impact the Haitians have brought to their community, alleging several reckless driving incidents and consumption of house pets, as reported by the Daily Mail. Haitian refugees have relocated to Springfield under a Biden-Harris administration program allowing them TPS, or temporary protective status in the US. Special visas are given to refugees from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba. In the city of about 70,000, some 20,000 Haitian refugees have come there just in the past few years.
“So you might imagine there are some challenges with, you know, integrating a new population,” Legend said in an Instagram video posted on Thursday from his Beverly Hills mansion. “New language, new culture, new dietary preferences. All kinds of reasons why they might be growing pains.”
“We had about 15,000 or so immigrants move to my town of 60,000,” Legend continued. “Now you might say, ‘Wow that’s a lot of people for a town that only had 60,000 before. That’s a 25 percent increase. That is correct.” […]
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