The Haitian Invasion of Ohio Was Not by Chance | The Rob Maness Show EP 698

Springfield, Ohio, once a classic Midwestern working-class town, became ground zero in America’s immigration fight. Thousands of Haitians arrived under Temporary Protected Status. Locals raised alarms about overcrowding, strained services, cultural clashes, and yes, those viral reports about pets. The media and politicians called it all a “hoax.” Heritage residents were labeled racists, told to shut up, and gaslit for describing what they saw with their own eyes. But what if dismissing the story as a hoax was the real hoax? Today’s guest is New York Times bestselling author and lifelong Ohioan Joshua Lisec. He didn’t just tweet about it, he spent ten weeks on the ground in Springfield. He conducted original interviews, gathered public testimony and hard evidence, and commissioned the first professional poll of Clark County residents. The result is his forthcoming book, Haitians of Springfield: An Oral History, the first full-length account of this American migrant crisis. It documents what happens when one culture’s norms begin to supersede another’s, without a vote, without consent, and without recourse. Joshua shows the widening gap between the lived experience of foreign influx into middle America and the approved narrative that was force-fed to the rest of the country. This was not by chance. It was policy. And the people of Springfield paid the price.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.