Ohio town struggling after influx of illegal immigrants: I dont know how they found our small village
A small village near Cincinnati, Ohio, is struggling with an influx of Mauritanian illegal immigrants, with officials warning that they are facing an economic shortfall as a result and that the quality of life is being affected.“If you look at 2021, 2022, the United States had seen a huge influx of immigrants from Mauritania.Somehow, a good number of them have landed in Lockland,” Lockland Village Administrator Doug Wehmeyer told Fox News Digital.A Washington Post analysis in June found that over 15,000 residents from Mauritania came to the U.S.
last year, a 2,800% increase over 2022, when just 543 arrived.Lockland, a village in the southwest of Ohio of about 3,500 people, has seen what it says is a large number of arrivals.
The Post reported that there were 2,700 who settled in Ohio in 2023, with about half going to nearby Cincinnati.Wehmeyer said that at least two of the nearby apartment complexes are over-occupied.Apartments should house four people apiece, and authorities are finding up to 12 people in each unit.“You have an apartment building that’s .
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say, 80 units at four people per unit.That’s about 320 people.
When you double or maybe even triple that population, the building systems aren’t designed to handle that.”“So when you use the utilities, that’s backing up.We have instances where people are going in to take a shower and feces is running out of the drains, filling the bathtubs as it comes from a floor above.
That’s compounded probably by the cooking methods that they use, which is a heavy grease-laden process.”He also noted that a building designed to have 320 people in it, but that may have significantly more, also comes with the risk of not having enough exits, and he said there have been issues with people getting out of buildings during fires.He also noted the financial strain it has put on the small community. Illegal immigrants claiming asylum may not work right away, and it can be months before they are quali...