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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Springfield, Ohio – 18 September 2024
1. Various of employee at Family Needs placing groceries in bag
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pastor Andrew Mobley, Family Needs Inc:
“We help with food, we help with rent, we help. We’ve always helped with those things if we have the money. I have personally written checks. Our mission was to be whatever the community needed."
3. Tight of sign inside Family Needs
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pastor Andrew Mobley, Family Needs Inc:
“The Haitians I’ve dealt with, and I actually have some now who rent for me personally, they pay their rent. They take care of business. The ones we helped in our church, they were faithful in paying their rent. They, they did what they’re supposed to do because nobody wants to go back to a war torn, torn country. Not just a war, but also the fact that the earthquakes that happened. So they’ve had tremendous problems."
5. Various of employees helping customers choose food
6. Various of customers bagging food, leaving
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pastor Andrew Mobley, Family Needs Inc:
“There’s a lot of tension in the area has been going on for a while. So everything has been highlighted just recently. They have been here and we’ve been we’ve been dealing with this and we’ve been asking for help through two different administrations. And no administration has helped us until now this thing has become public.”
8. Various inside Family Needs
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pastor Andrew Mobley, Family Needs Inc:
“Whether you’re Haitian, whether you’re Italian, whether you’re Chinese, whether you’re whatever you are, we’ve tried to take care of our population from a social standpoint, and that’s what we do.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Springfield, Ohio – 12 September 2024
10. Various of pastors in Springfield praying during gathering
ASSOCAITED PRESS
Springfield, Ohio – 15 September 2024
11. Springfield, Ohio welcome sign
STORYLINE:
In the quiet corners of Springfield, Ohio — out of sight of the drumbeat of politicians and journalists and troopers and security camera installations — real people are breathing, praying and attempting to carry on.
Between the morning bomb sweep of Springfield’s schools and the near daily afternoon media briefing, a hush comes over the city that locals say is uncanny, haunting even. It’s fear. It’s confusion. It’s dismay at being transformed overnight into a target for the nation’s vitriol.
Pastor Andy Mobley, who runs the Family Needs Inc. food pantry on the city’s south side, said people are hunkered down out of the public eye. He said they’re hoping the attention sparked by former President Donald Trump spreading unsubstantiated rumors about the city’s legal Haitian immigrants eating house pets during last week’s presidential debate will blow over.
Trump and his vice presidential running mate, Ohio’s junior U.S. senator JD Vance, have used the cat-eating rumors to draw attention to the 15,000 Haitian immigrants whose arrival in Springfield to fill area manufacturing, distribution and warehouse jobs has put a severe strain on local resources.
Since their initial comments, more than two dozen bomb threats since then have prompted the state to send in additional state troopers and to install surveillance cameras visible around the city in order to reopen schools and government buildings.
He said the influx of immigrants began long before President Joe Biden took office.
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