Lockland, Ohio has been invaded by African migrants who don’t speak English and the mayor is laying the blame at the feet of the Biden-Harris administration.
Over 3,000 migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania have descended on the town of only 3,500 residents over the last year, straining resources and the patience of locals. According to the town’s mayor, much of it is due to TikTokkers posting instructions on how to move into the Cincinnati suburb, the New York Post reported.
Calls to local politicians and Ohio Republican Governor Mike Dewine have gone mostly unanswered while the town is reportedly drowning in debt and experiencing a societal breakdown.
“With the federal government’s open border policy, these immigration population outbursts have been left for small villages like Lockland to have to deal with,” Mayor Mark Mason told WCPO in a candid interview.
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“If they’re going to have an open border policy, they’re going to need a policy to direct these immigrants to communities that can withstand that kind of population outburst. [This is a] 1.2-square-mile village — it’s unsustainable,” the mayor contended.
Mauritania is a Muslim-majority country on Africa’s Atlantic coast and is among the poorest on the planet. They primarily speak Arabic but also converse in French creating a troublesome language barrier, local officials claim.
“The Mauritanians have been directed to go to Lockland through TikTok posts and WhatsApp groups instructing them to flock to the small town, according to the mayor. He said he’s not sure exactly why Lockland has become a prime destination for the 4,000-mile journey from Mauritania,” the Post noted, adding that instructions tell the migrants to go to Turkey, then Latin America. Once they cross the border, they are instructed to proceed to Cincinnati to settle in the suburb of Lockland.
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The migrants were allowed to enter the U.S. under the Biden-Harris administration, but won’t be eligible to work for over a year, the Post reported. Meanwhile, it’s safe to assume the migrants will continue to suck up local resources while they wait.
“We’re looking at, right now, at probably close to a $200,000 shortfall in our earnings income tax revenue,” Mason contended.
“Fire Chief and town administrator Doug Wehmeyer said the number of emergency calls has increased 12% as a result of the migrant influx, per WCPO. He said those calls have led to emergency responses to two apartment complexes — where almost all of the 200 units are occupied by Mauritanian migrants, who are cramming sometimes more than a dozen people into single units. The largest number of calls are for cooking fires,” the New York Post pointed out.
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“If you look at a response map of our area, there are two bright red hot zones on the heat map and that heat map would show you the two apartment complexes that the majority of the Mauritanians are living at,” Wehmeyer claimed.
“On the more severe end, we’ve responded to a structure fire that involved two apartment units within the Mulberry Court complex which involved the evacuation of literally hundreds of Mauritanians,” he recounted. “In 35 years in the fire service, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more people standing outside the outside of a building as I did when we arrived on scene.”
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The influx of illegal migrants into tiny Ohio town has nearly doubled Lockland’s population of 3,500 in a matter of months.
Nearly all are from the Muslim-majority country on Africa’s Atlantic coast, which is among the poorest in the world.#TrumpVance2024 pic.twitter.com/FXuiFeuzfq
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The mayor said he’s finally starting to receive call backs, but only after attention to the problem had started to spread.
“I think with the attention that this is getting, we are starting to get more phone calls back and so I think we’re headed in the right direction,” Mason commented. “And it’s not the fact that they’re Mauritanians. They could be Croatians or whoever. It’s the fact that this 1.2-square-mile village cannot absorb this kind of increase on our population.”
“We didn’t ask for them to come here. There’s people out there saying, ‘Oh, Lockland’s making money off this.’ We’re not making a dime off this. If anything, it’s costing us money,” the mayor remarked.
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This is an outrage.
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Jesus help us ! How many more destitute illegals do we need to support ? I can’t even afford a home and now my tax dollars will house them
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