A few months ago the Mayor of Springfield, Ohio said town will collapse due to the Haitian illegals.

mayor of Springfield Ohio and Brian heck is the city manager and they both join me now uh good morning to you both mayor Rue tell us what's going on in Springfield well what we've seen is just such a quick increase of our population over the last five years you know like you said up to 15 to 20,000 immigrants have come across uh and into our community uh this has overwhelmed our safety services and caused Great concern for our community Brian you're the city manager tell us more and how it how this influx is impacting the city yeah certainly uh thank you for having us on this morning you know when we see a 25% increase over a three-year period we're a community we do not have the capacity to to sustain that and it's taxing our infrastructure it's taxing Public Safety it's taxing our schools it's taxing health care and as JD Vance uh spoke on it's taxing our housing we had a housing shortage well before uh this immigration crisis that's uh impacted our community um and this has just made it a hundred times worse and so uh it's setting communities like Springfield up to fail and uh we do not have the capacity to sustain it and uh without additional federal assistance or support um again communities like Springfield will fail