Small Indiana city pleads for help from feds after up to 2,000 migrants move in overwhelming hospital and schools

An Indiana community is pleading for help from the federal government after up to 2,000 migrants from at least 28 countries flocked to the city of 18,000 people — overwhelming the local health system and making the roads dangerous.Many migrants have arrived in Logansport as unaccompanied minors — putting a strain on the schools and increasing the population of Haitian migrant students by nearly 15-fold in just three years.Locals are asking how the migrants are getting there — and why they chose to relatively remote city 90 minutes north of Indianapolis.Logansport resident Dave Price told Fox News Wednesday that the city is used to new arrivals — with Mexican immigrants coming to the community and making a home there years earlier.“But what we’re seeing now is a little different.It’s coming from a Third World country coming into Logansport,” he said.

“And these individuals don’t necessarily know the local laws or rules and how to behave here, basically.“And we just ask that our local leaders, state and federal, take a look at Logansport, Indiana.”Logansport is now part of a growing list of small-town communities where the local population is struggling to deal with a huge influx of migrants as a result of Biden-Harris administration policies.

Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, previously made headlines for the same level.“The federal government has got to step in and help communities our size,” Mayor Chris Martin recently told FOX 59 Indianapolis.In Logansport, the effects are being felt by the community at nearly every level.Not even Martin knows the exact number of migrant arrivals to Logansport.One local business owner who sells to the Haitian community estimates that 2,000 migrants have arrived in the last few years.Martin told The Post that the influx has led to a 20% to 30% increase in demand for hospital services.Traffic violations have also increased, the result of newly arrived migrants failing to follow US drivin...