The pro-immigration border chief for President Joe Biden this week said that Springfield, Ohio, “has blossomed because of the inflow of people from another country.”
Alejandro Mayorkas, who is the Cuban-born secretary of the DHS, didn’t name the city or the blight that many Americans live in because of low pay, high rents, chaos in the streets, and lawmakers who don’t care about or support them.
Mayorkas, a careful lawyer, also decided to forget about the two Springfielders who died during the supposed blooming.
Aiden Clark, 11, was one of the people who died. He was on his first day back to school. Another person who died was Kathy Heaton, a grandmother.
“It’s been great for the Big Box stores, the absentee owners, and the staffing companies,” Springfield local William Monaghan told Breitbart News. “But it has been terrible for regular people here. A small group of people are getting very rich off of it, but it’s ruining the neighborhood,” he said.
Mark Krikorian, head of the Center for Immigration Studies, said that Mayorkas’s claim that it “blossomed” shows his “underlying assumption is that these American places and the people who live in them were flawed and needed this mass immigration to live a full life.”
He told Breitbart News, “That’s just so condescending.”
Krikorian said that the people who live in a town should decide its future, not some official in Washington.
“This [“blossoming”] is like talking about all the places with different types of food that come with immigration. It’s that kind of a simple view. People who live in these places, like those in Whitewater, Wisconsin; Springfield, Ohio; and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, don’t really think [blossoming] is that great… “because it doesn’t look like blooming if you live in these towns.”
“Their government should look out for their own interests, not some vague goal of making these towns more worldly,” he said, adding:
“People who live miles away in much safer and more stable neighborhoods are the ones who say things like this.”
