The donuts are so rich they can make the teeth ache, but the sugar high is immediately crashed when confronted with the image of a town forever changed by the flood of more than 20,000 Haitian migrants.
The horizon from the bakery's front door introduces visitors to a dilapidated community now presented with traffic hazards as Haitians crowd the streets and parking lots of a Rust Belt community turned into Little Haiti.
"These Haitians are running into trash cans. They're running into buildings. They're flipping cars in the middle of the street, and I don't know how like, y'all can be comfortable with this," said a resident named Anthony Harris, who is now running for city council.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the claims specifically related to the Haitians killing pets and wild animals hold "Deep roots in racist stereotypes, which depict foreigners as willing consumers of a variety of undesirable animals." Even as The Federalist's reporting on a specific goose-hunting episode near the corner of Water and Warner streets corroborated the stories of Haitians hunting birds, a reporter from the Texas Observer sought to debunk the story Thursday only to end up independently verifying the existence of the recording.
One woman who spoke with The Federalist anonymously said she was chased by a Haitian man wielding a machete in "One of the scariest interactions I've ever had." The incident happened on a July afternoon just months after another episode at a Walmart in southeast Springfield where a group of Haitian men stalked her around the store and eventually chased her back to her car.
The Haitian driver was sentenced to at least nine years in prison instead of immediate deportation.
Despite Haitians making up half the lineup outside the pick-up queue on a Thursday morning visit, Irick said the migrant population was "Not anywhere near the biggest group of people we serve." "We operate as a warehouse, and we do some direct service here," Irick said, adding that most of the food bank's service is geared towards "Food pantries and churches and other soup kitchens." "We provide them with food, and then they distribute it to the neighbors," Irick said.
"Haitian voodoo is in fact real, and to dismiss the story out-of-hand rather than listen to the citizens of Springfield[,] Ohio[,] confirms in the minds of many voters the stereotype of Democrats as elite jerks who think they're too smart to listen to anyone outside their own silo." Fewer stray cats are now seen downtown, according to one local, while another resident who spoke anonymously with The Federalist is meanwhile wondering what happened to all of the ducks in the town parks.
As a lifelong resident, she added, "You know when things are wrong." The same woman who shared her tale about a Haitian migrant chasing her with machete told The Federalist she saw a Haitian man carrying what looked like a dead goose by Snyder Park in the city's west end.
The Haitians in town could not answer because they did not speak English, but Federalist Senior Editor John Davidson reported on Tuesday that the blame lies solely with the Biden administration.
"'Paroled into the country,'" he added, "Is just a jargon-y way of saying they were released from federal custody on their own recognizance, free to go wherever they want in the U.S." Ohio Republican Lieutenant Gov. Jon Husted wrote that many found their way to Springfield because "Temporary employment agencies were connecting Haitians to jobs at local food processing plants." "There may be other explanations, but this is the one that I heard most frequently," Husted wrote on X. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s former vice presidential running mate outlined the irony behind evidence surfacing that Haitians in Springfield are hunting geese in the municipal parks.
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