Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno has criticised “rogue” politicians for the migrant crisis in the US. Springfield, OhioHe said it shows that elected Democrats have “forgotten” that they “work for the American people.”
,“For a start, we don’t know how many Haitian immigrants have come to Springfield, Ohio,” businessman Bernie Moreno, who is running as a Republican candidate against Democratic Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, told Fox News Digital.
“That’s problem number one, and number two is why are we bringing these huge numbers of people into a small community like Springfield where they don’t have the infrastructure, they don’t have the health system, they don’t have the education system and it’s going to cost them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars to get to where they are.”
Moreno added, “We have incredible priorities in America. We have people in need, American citizens who need housing, American citizens who are struggling because of high inflation because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Why are we taking precious resources from the American taxpayers and using it to benefit foreign citizens? That’s the real question for Springfield that’s not being answered.”
Bernie Moreno is the Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio. (Fox News Digital)
Springfield, Ohio, has made national headlines in recent weeks over the influx of thousands of Haitian migrants into the city of 60,000, where residents say the infrastructure doesn’t exist to care for them all and crime has become a growing problem.
“It’s like living in a horrible nightmare,” said Springfield resident Diana Daniels. Told “Fox & Friends”, on Thursday. “You expect to wake up and it’s 2019 again, and then you realize it’s 2024, and it’s the same thing day in and day out. Sometimes it’s hard to wake up in the morning and hear residents struggling that I’ve known for years. This is a paycheck to paycheck kind of town … working class. Citizens that rely on our social services like healthcare, Rocking Horse (Community Health Center), going to the Social Security office for benefits, they’re waiting in line, and they’re not getting the services that they need.”
Moreno told Fox News Digital that Brown and Biden, whom she called “two politicians with 50-year careers,” “have forgotten that they work for the American people.”
Rose Grout Creole Restaurant in Springfield, Ohio, is a popular Haitian dining establishment that will open in August 2023. (Fox News)
,The election comes down to whose side you’re on and are you on the side of Haiti and Haitians and people suffering around the world, who we all obviously sympathize with, or are you on the side of Americans, American workers, American families, whose health care costs are rising dramatically, whose taxes are rising, whose insurance prices are rising, whose grocery bills are rising, and what are you doing about that?”
“You’re certainly not helping this poor country by bringing 5% of its population to the United States and having two cultures collide with each other and bringing them to a place like Springfield, Ohio, where American citizens are deprived of the benefits they should be getting,” Moreno said.,
Moreno echoed Daniels’ concerns, pointing out that residents who are “entitled” to use the resources they paid for are “standing in line behind Haitian immigrants.”
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People line up for food at the St. John’s Lutheran Church food pantry on September 13, 2024 in Springfield, Ohio. (Fox News/Max Bacall)
,“They shouldn’t even be in this country,” Moreno said. “That’s ultimately what’s happening and that’s why this story is so important, because it’s really the story of America. Do we want leaders in elected office in Washington, D.C., like President Trump, or as I would, like J.D. Vance, who put America first? Or do you want political leaders who have been there forever? These career serial politicians who put the interests of foreign citizens first. That’s ultimately what this election is all about.”
Moreno, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia as a child, told Fox News Digital that her fellow legal immigrants are fed up with this “culture that rewards people for not toeing the line” and receiving “preferential treatment for any reason.”
“For example, temporary protected status, or again the word ‘temporary,’ should be given to people who are here and who have an emergency in their country and need to stay here for a few months,” Moreno said.
“Instead, we’re using it to get people to stay here permanently. It leaves out the limits of millions of people who want to come to this country. Why are we giving preference to Haiti? There’s suffering all over the world: India, Africa, my home country of Colombia. There’s suffering everywhere. Why are we giving preference to some countries and not others? And the answer is that you have special interest groups that pay these politicians, that fund nonprofits, that pay CEOs huge salaries and it’s all about money and the people who pay the price and the people of Springfield, Ohio.”
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Senator Sherrod Brown during a vote at the US Capitol on January 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Moreno also questioned prominent Democrats and celebrities who he says have not taken the issue seriously.
“Then you have corrupt politicians like Sherrod Brown who hang out with Hollywood celebrity friends like John Legend, who sits in a bathrobe from his multi-million dollar mansion, talking about how people should feel welcome in Springfield, Ohio,” Moreno said.
“Why doesn’t he house them? Why don’t these immigrants move to Beverly Hills and live there in a two- or three-bedroom house until they’re 16 or 18? And why don’t his kids go to school with these immigrants who don’t speak a word of English, whose culture is so different from ours, because of course, they’re the elites in this country who want the rest of us to have to live with the consequences of their ridiculous policies.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Senator Brown and the White House but did not receive a response.
