A week ago, we reviewed the migrant situation in the small Indiana town of Logansport, which has witnessed a population increase of thousands during the Biden-Harris years, nearly all illegal migrants from Haiti. Today, a new report from the New York Post offers a rough estimate of the numbers that is as high as 11,000. What is known is that the number of Haitian students in the local schools has increased 15-fold, from 14 in 2021 to 207 this year. A Logansport mother, Nancy Baker, told the Post that her 16-year-old daughter Cheyanne had to drop out of her high school because “teachers seemingly had no time for the English-speaking pupils anymore.” Mrs. Baker said:
There were way too many kids and it seemed to her that since they didn’t speak the language, or didn’t understand what was going on, they were getting more attention. And so she and the other kids who grew up here who were having issues or struggling in certain things weren’t able to get the attention that they needed — the help they needed from the school.
Cheyanne, previously an honor roll student, dropped out and enrolled in an online homeschool instead. Her mother added that Cheyanne had been verbally accosted and chased by Haitian migrants while walking to a coffee shop near her home.
She was walking by herself and she was walking that way and two of them were going this way, she just kinda smiled at them as they walked by. They started yelling for her after they got past her. She turned around and she looked at them and they were like, Come here! Come here!” She’s like, “No, no, no, I’m good.” She started walking fast. They chased her. She had to run all the way down to the coffee shop. She’s scared to go outside.
Another resident, photographer Candice Espinoza, said Haitian migrants regularly stare into her window from across the street from her home.
They just stare at you and won’t talk to you. They stand there staring at my house with cameras on their phones. I don’t know if they’re recording, what they’re doing.
She says she’s afraid to leave her home and has had to install security cameras on her property.
The newcomers have also placed a heavy burden on the town’s medical services. Cass County Health Department Administrator Serenity Alter told the paper:
This surge has created a drastic climb in medical visits. It has been necessary for the hospital, health department and express clinics to boost translation services in order to ensure that medical needs are understood.
She added that the conditions the migrants live under — with sometimes 20 to 25 individuals in the same living space — has caused communicable diseases like tuberculosis to flourish.
As a result of the Haitian influx, many of those interviewed voiced support for Donald Trump in the upcoming election. Asked what she would say to Kamala Harris given the opportunity, Mrs. Baker said flatly: “Get off my property!”
For more, see the NY Post.