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Avedee Eikew's avatar

I think it was the Newshour a couple of days ago but they had a report from Springfield and one of the employers stated explicitly "The good thing about them (Haitian immigrants) is they are not on drugs during their shift". I listened to the quote twice to be sure I heard it right. It's not shocking per se but still jarring.

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Mark's avatar

I saw that Newshour story too. It was actually the first story I saw on the topic before I did a deep dive searching for specifics on why so many Haitians had moved to this city. The place they visited in the Newshour story was called McGregor Metal and the manager they talked to said he had 30 Haitians working there, which was 10% of his workforce. Okay.....so that accounts for 0.2% of them. It seemed strange to me then and still does that the story didn't elaborate on what the employment draw was to accommodate a surge of 15,000. KingOfSpades' link was the first story I'd seen that gives further explanation.

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