Ohio lawmaker says Haitians ‘don’t understand the laws’

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With so much focus on whether pet cats and dogs are being eaten by Haitian refugees who have settled by the thousands in the Springfield, Ohio, community, what’s getting lost in the mix is that residents are dealing with sometimes shocking cultural differences.

Chief among these differences is understanding the rule of law in America, according to Ohio State Rep. Kyle Koehler.

“They don’t understand the laws, they don’t understand some of our customs, we don’t understand some of their customs, and that clash and the overwhelming amount of people that have come at one point has really caused some issues,” Koehler told Fox News.

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Given the overwhelming numbers, the issue plays havoc in the community, according to the lawmaker who is running to represent the area in the state Senate.

“We’ve got an influx of folks that have come in, and I think we were a little bit shocked that it was close to 20,000 people in a community of 60,000, and that’s caused some issues between the folks that live here and the folks that are coming in,” Koehler said.

Reports of pets being eaten in the Springfield community have persisted online, with locals insisting it is happening. While local officials say otherwise, former President Donald Trump blasted the issue into the stratosphere while discussing the wide-open southern border during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”

The liberal media largely functioning as an appendage of the Harris campaign lost its collective mind, but what they don’t report is that, according to the U.S. State Department, approximately 50 to 80% of the Haitian population practices Voodoo, often blended with elements of the Catholic Church. The practice of Voodoo can include animal sacrifice.

Another problem locals are dealing with involves traffic safety.

Hermanio Joseph, a Haitian immigrant was found guilty earlier this year of involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide after colliding with a school bus in October, resulting in over 20 kids being hurt and one, Aiden Clark, being killed, according to Fox News.

“The driving in town is horrendous,” Koehler said, pointing to cultural differences.

“We do have a really abnormal number of car accidents that are happening,” he said. “And it’s not only the number but the severity of them. When you go on a street that is a 35-mile-an-hour speed limit and there’s a car sitting on its hood, and I’m not talking about one, I’m talking about five or six accidents a week like that, you begin to wonder.”

Koehler also recalled hearing secondhand stories about “people showing up at the Walmart on a Saturday morning, going into the bathroom, and stripping down and bathing themselves.”

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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.