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My first thought is that the real reason employers are so happy to have the Haitians is because they can pay them less, but not having been to the Midwest I may be underestimating the degredation of the native human capital.
Haitian-Americans seem to be doing okay so far, though one always has to be concerned about selection effects. Maybe Haiti's abysmal situation is due to instability and mismanagement. If only there were some way for an outside force to provide order, political stability, and facilitate foreign investment...
UPDATE: WE HAVE GEESE! The Federalist claims to have obtained a police report and non-emergency call from August where a citizen reports a group of Hatians who "all had geese in their hands." Finally, some actual journalism.
Here's a story that's not going to play very well.
Woman saying that her 71 year old mother in law got killed by a reckless Haitian driver while taking out the trash. That no one was punished, not even for expired tags on the vehicle.
Honestly anyone taking a good look at Haiti could have bet that far, far worse stories are going to come out of this. The car insurance($420 insurance per month on 2 cars) and crime (doubled since '21) factoids are likely right.
Locals are saying they believe Haitians have 'amnesty' and cops can't touch them. A woman - and not a great looking one, complaining she was groped and saying she doesn't go out without her pitbull and her gun.
EDIT: local claims he saw police stop a van full of Haitians who were collecting cats.
EDIT 2: Interesting talk by people from a neighboring village of Tremont (just NNW) https://youtube.com/watch?v=YrCotATOgR4&t=665s
Police in Springfield ordered not to tow vehicles without licenses. 7+ car accidents every day in Springfield. Haitians get out of fines because they don't have translator(?). Second guy who's speaking says he's been crashed into twice, his mother once.
And therefore, it won't be played on the mainstream media at all.
If it's big enough on social media they're going to have to try to address it.
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Yeah, the US tried it. It was a shitshow. The US sucks at imperialism. Maybe Canada would like to try?
Who's still good at imperialism actually? The list has gotten pretty short.
Europe and the US are clearly out, one needs only to glance at Lybia and Irak. China's not exactly doing great. Free infrastructure with strings attached is a classic strategy, but they suck so much at diplomacy that everybody still hates their guts except maybe Iran.
It seems weird to say but I think Russia is the best we got here, and I wouldn't call them good. They're not afraid to go from the iron fist to the velvet glove, which gives them a leg up. But while turning the Chechens into loyalists was a feat, it was also a bloody mess.
No, they're quite (horribly) effective at imperialism. Remember that just because Chinese territory is contiguous doesn't mean it's not an empire; China proper, peopled by Han, looks like this. Xinjiang and Tibet, at least (I'm less sure about Inner Mongolia and Manchuria), are not very happy with being ruled by the PRC, but it's doing them little good because they're brutally occupied.
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