Immivasion Nation

Today it's Haiti

This is a continuation of one aspect of my last essay, to wit:

I know you’ve heard it or read it a hundred times over. “They may take over the big cities, they’re already lefty shitholes anyway. But don’t try that in our small town.”

So…you don’t say? Is that so?

What are you going to do if they just bum-bomb your small town with ten or twenty thousand vagrants…er, migrants…er, illegal aliens? Like they just did to Springfield, OH?

When I wrote that, I was unaware of a much more poignant example occurring in a mirror image of my own hometown less than sixty miles away.

Indiana Kids Ignored in Schools as Migrants Flood In – PJ Media

Logansport, Ind., was once a pretty sleepy town, the New York Post reported, but now residents are afraid of walking around downtown and kids are leaving schools where staff are preoccupied with teaching new arrivals who don’t speak English. Why? Democrats have sent a significant number of illegal aliens there. Cass County Health Department Administrator Serenity Alter estimated to the Post that the area’s population has shot up 30%.

The county had 38,000 residents as of 2020, but now up to 11,000 illegals have arrived and changed both the schools and the safety level in Logansport. Mayor Chris Martin puts the number of illegal alien arrivals closer to 3,000 (though his whining about politicians calling attention to the migrant crisis makes his comments questionable), but it is not certain which estimate is more accurate.

Logansport is about an hour’s easy drive straight down IN35, which I catch a few blocks from my home. Oddly, La Porte owes its existence to five men who purchased the land on which it was established at the land office in Logansport in 1833. The ties go back a long way.

La Porte’s population in 2022 was 21, 341. It’s probably a few hundred more today as we’ve seen an influx of permanent residents fleeing Chicago.

Here’s what downtown looks like today:

The current population of Logansport is about 18,196. Here’s what its downtown looks like:

Both cities are the seats of their respective counties. Demographically, they are nearly identical. Two peas, one pod, more or less. Except…

The average household income in Logansport is $55,352 with a poverty rate of 18.52%. The median age in Logansport is 37.3 years: 34.7 years for males, and 40.1 years for females.

Versus:

The average household income in La Porte is $68,632 with a poverty rate of 18.55%. The median age in La Porte is 35 years: 31.5 years for males, and 37 years for females.

Also, while La Porte is showing some decent growth, Logansport is still shrinking a bit. Which means that although the poverty rates are identical, it’s probably a better deal to be poor in La Porte than Logansport. Especially these days.

Tyson Foods employees come and go between shifts at the Tyson Food Processing Plant that is located in [Logansport] Indiana. Tyson has been accused of allegedly replacing citizen employees with migrant employees in an effort to decrease pay. LP Media

The mayor estimates around 2,000 to 3,000 Haitian migrants moving to town. LP Media

Actually, the Mayor estimated that number at four to six thousand as recently as last month:

Mayor Martin acknowledged the influx, citing a 20-30% increase in hospital services, including births, physician visits, and emergency room visits over the past three years. While he admitted to not having an exact count of new arrivals, he pointed to the city's extensive investments in infrastructure and public safety over the last few years.

However, a moment later the Mayor surfaced a theme that seems to be a partial answer to “why here, why now?” many ask about sudden explosions of immigrants in a few small towns, but not many others.

Based on his comments, Mayor Martin suggested that Logansport has been preparing for population growth for some time. His statement about the city being "in one of the best positions in the state of Indiana" to handle an influx of people hints at a level of planning that invites further questions. Were these investments a strategic response to an anticipated rise in immigration, or did they align with other community development goals?

Left unsaid, at least specifically, by this local newspaper, is any reference to what a strategic response to an anticipated rise in immigration might actually mean. Residents understand the double-speak is about the elephant in the middle of the Logansport living room, Tyson Foods, the city’s largest employer, and especially the largest employer of “immigrants.” Nationwide, about one third of Tyson’s 120,000 employees are such immigrants.

The situation in Logansport is similar to that of Springfield, OH, of recent Haitian pet-eating fame. There was an influx of new businesses to that city, (how? why? what attracted them?) who, it turned out, were in “desperate” need of workers. Which leads one to ask, why did those businesses find Springfield so attractive, if there was no labor force to hire from?

Easy peasy. The corporations do a deal with the local government, and engage in under-the-table collaborations with NGOs to import a cheap labor force from some foreign shithole. Yes, that cheap part is one of the keys to all of this. After which, magically, refugees from foreign shitholes, promised free entry and unlimited residency by a federal Democrat government seeking to turn red areas blue, all flock like starlings to one particular town and turn it into a shithole.

But the corporations get low cost, subservient labor, lots of nice stimulus money from the local government, part of which they kick back to the pols, and another part of which they give to finance the NGOs who orchestrate the immivasion and, presto, you get a thirty percent increase in your population consisting mostly of Haitians who find dogs a delicious delicacy, culturally speaking.

And speaking of culture, theirs is as foreign to yours as that of Martians would be, if Mars were a backward, voodoo and AIDs-infested shithole. Like Haiti.

The same game plan played out in Logansport. It took the menage a trois of a greedy corporation, a bunch of governmental catspaws, and some NGOs waving their magic wands over the entire reeking mess, but get it done, they did, and a new 30% immivasion hit another heartland small town. And is wrecking it, while all the usual suspects try to convince you how wonderful it all is.

It is, after all, Holy DEIversity, Batman, and what decent person could possible oppose that?

Answer: Any American who would like to keep their American hometown American, no matter how disgusting such a goal might seem to un-Americans who would like to destroy every American hometown they can sink their bloody claws into.

So what can you do about it?

First, recognize the signs in advance. These travesties are easier to head off if you can nip them in the bud, rather than try to prune them after they are fully grown.

Does your town have one, or a few major corporations whining that Americans refuse to work for them (because they are peddling jobs that “Americans won’t do” at the miserable terms on which they are offered)?

Do you have a new breed of politician running for office on a growth, growth, growth at any cost platform, and who seems to be attracting a lot of support from those labor-starved corporations?

Finally, is there one, or more do-gooder NGO involved, like The Bridge in Logansport?

The Bridge is home to the Bridge Community Church and also Immigrant Connection, a legal office with a mission to provide high-quality, low-cost legal services to immigrants in Logansport and the surrounding communities.

“Let me be clear about what we do and do not do,” Szmara wrote. “We do not sponsor immigrants, transport, or bring them to our city, or provide housing or other services. Instead, we function like a nonprofit law firm, focusing solely on immigration law. Our work helps immigrants maintain lawful status (like renewing work permits so they can keep their jobs and driver’s licenses), reunite families (helping U.S. citizens bring their spouses, children, or parents from abroad), and navigate the complex steps toward becoming naturalized U.S. citizens. Every single thing we do is following current federal law, under the oversight of the DOJ.

Another point of confusion is around our funding. I want to set the record straight: our local office has never received federal, state, or local funding. Most of our community’s other non-profits receive state and/or federal funding and/or local grants from the Community Foundation or United Way – Immigrant Connection at The Bridge has not received funding from these sources. We’re funded by the immigrants we serve, who pay low-cost fees—about 10% of what an attorney would charge.

I see. So, is this you?

Logansport, IN –Immigrant Connection announced today a grant of $65,000 from Tyson Foods for Immigrant Legal Services for the company’s Logansport team members and families. This investment will allow Immigrant Connection to continue to provide services such as legal counseling and naturalization assistance to Tyson Foods team members and their families. Immigrant Connection aims to prevent immigration-related disruptions in employment at Tyson Foods through an increased presence on their Logansport campus.

“The Immigrant Connection Team at the Bridge is overjoyed to continue partnering with Tyson Foods to serve the immigrant communities in Logansport,”said Zach Szmara, National Director, Immigrant Connection. “This bolstered support will give us new opportunities to connect with Tyson team members and their families, allowing us to offer more services at lower cost. Together with Tyson, we look forward to continuing to cultivate a welcoming environment throughout Logansport for our immigrant and refugee families.”

And for Tyson Foods’ cheap and subservient labor force.

The key to this is first, the politicians, and then the corporations. The thing about smaller towns is the political establishment is much less insulated from the people they purport to represent than in larger places. You run into the mayor when you are both doing your shopping at the Kroger. You may see him (or her) at church every Sunday. Maybe a couple tables over at a local eatery.

And you can make your views known. Politely, if at all possible, because that usually works better. But let them know. Pols see the real game as getting elected (and those corporate donors do help with that). But they expect that once that hurdle is crossed, they can depend on the ignorance, laziness, and lack of involvement of their electorate between elections to give them free rein to pursue whatever they wish to chase. Like delivering on their promises to their big donors, such as the cheap-labor-starved corporations in the area.

Usually, they are right in their judgement about all that, too. It’s up to you to see they become wrong about it. Speak to them of your concerns. Organize, even if your group is small. Pols fear organized groups far more than they do individual citizens. Run petitions. Put signs in your yards. Talk to others, and urge them to talk to the pols wherever they find them. Use your local Facebook pages (every small town has a few) to get the word out.

If you’re politely persistent, you may even save your small red town from the fate of Logansport, IN, Springfield, OH, or…

Washington, IN, which has abruptly become 5% Haitian.

Of course, the other thing about our small towns is that many of us know exactly where our politicians live.