Springfield Mayor Says Haitians Not Eating Pets, But Causing Actual Problems

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Springfield, Ohio's mayor says Donald Trump's wrong about Haitian immigrants eating people's dogs and cats there ... but he says the influx of migrants is causing real problems.

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00:00Springfield is a beautiful city, and we are a resilient city, and it's strange to even

00:08say this, but your pets are safe in Springfield, clearly.

00:12And it's just difficult to be a part of, you know, to be able to have to defend something

00:16like that.

00:17Our Springfield residents are absolutely concerned, you know, I'm not going to minimize the fact

00:21that we have had a fast-growing population in the last three or four years that has increased

00:26our population by 20 to 25%.

00:29If you do that to any community, anywhere, you're going to experience an infrastructure

00:33strain, you're going to experience a culture clash, you're going to experience many different

00:37ways that can cause stress and can cause difficulty in your community.

00:42Springfield, Ohio is trying to wrap our arms around this concern, and that's what we've

00:46been trying to do.

00:47And unfortunately, we can never move fast enough for many people, and other people know

00:51we're trying to do the best we can.

00:54But when you have fear spread, when you have misinformation spread virally, it causes the

01:00city government and the city staff members to have to deal with things that they, frankly,

01:06keeps them from running our city in an efficient way.

01:09And we're doing our best to triage the situation and take care of it.

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