Ohio mayor sounds alarm after village rocked by thousands of African illegal immigrants: 'Unsustainable'

LOCKLAND, Ohio -- The politician of a mini colony near Cincinnati says he needs thief from nan national authorities aft a surge of forbidden migration chiefly from Mauritania that astir exceeds nan section organization and that he says is "unsustainable."

"Our region officials estimate that we person astir 3,000 of those that person travel to a colony of 3,420 residents. And our title is, if nan national authorities is going to person an unfastened borders policy, pinch that they request to person a argumentation directing these immigrants to communities that tin sorb that benignant of organization increase," Lockland Mayor Mark Mason told Fox News Digital.

Officials want to beryllium focused connected revitalizing nan colony and its economy, which was downgraded from a metropolis owed to its shrinking population, but they alternatively find themselves strained by nan accent of nan tremendous number of forbidden immigrants.

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This image shows nan municipality of Lockland, Ohio. (Fox News Digital)

There are aggregate flat blocks that officials and residents opportunity are taken complete by Mauritanians, who are said to beryllium packed beyond capacity successful apartments.

Village Administrator Doug Wehmeyer told Fox News Digital precocious that it is starring to astir $150,000 successful losses for nan village, arsenic nan forbidden immigrants do not salary taxes and are displacing section residents who are moving retired of those apartments. It is an appraisal shared by nan mayor.

"Our occurrence and paramedic services person been stressed. Since they moved into these flat complexes, a batch of nan longtime residents person moved retired because of aggregate fires. It's been caused by their not knowing really to navigator connected stoves, and they usage precocious levels of grease successful their cooking, which person caused aggregate fires," Mason said.

"And truthful a batch of group don't want to taxable their families to unsafe conditions successful these flat complexes. So, therefore, they've moved retired – nan moving residents – and they person moved in. And astir don't person jobs, they don't lend to society. They don't lend to your net taxation base. And it's a existent concern," he said.

Border Patrol picks up a group of asylum seekers from an assistance campy astatine nan U.S.-Mexico separator adjacent Sasabe, Arizona, connected Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

Other concerns see littering passim nan village. The politician besides says a number of female residents person complained astir really they are treated by nan Mauritanians. 

"If you're going to fto immigrants conscionable travel complete freely, you've sewage to amended them connected nan taste differences successful really things run present and make them understand that immoderate of nan things that possibly you're utilized to successful Mauritania [isn't] needfully acceptable present successful nan United States," he said.

Ultimately, 1 of nan biggest issues is numbers.

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"A colony of 1.2 quadrate miles tin conscionable not sorb almost a doubling successful their population. It's unsustainable," he said.

He based on that it is up to nan national authorities to thief mini communities and to nonstop migrants to communities, including those that are sanctuary communities.

Lockland’s lawsuit echoes towns and cities for illustration Springfield, Ohio, which saw a surge successful Haitian migration successful caller years, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, which has besides been overwhelmed by Haitian migration.

Meanwhile, cities for illustration Chicago and New York City person struggled to grip nan waves of migration they person seen move to their sanctuary jurisdictions arsenic nan separator situation has moved north.

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Recently, officials and residents in Logansport, Indiana, opportunity they person struggled pinch an influx of Haitians.

"And shame connected nan national authorities for allowing this to hap to mini communities for illustration ours. It's happening passim nan country," Mason said. 

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"Pick a state, prime a mini community, and you tin publication astir it. It whitethorn not beryllium Mauritanians, but migration has affected mini municipality USA. And it's conscionable not adjacent that this is dropped connected section governments, section residents to person to woody pinch these situations," he said.

Fox News' Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.