(10-19-24) Another Ohio community is facing financial issues from the influx of immigrants. Lockland is presently talking to government officials about helping with the situation.

Hundreds of Mauritanians seeking asylum find refuge in Cincinnati village

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Lockland Village Administrator Doug Wehmeyer told Fox News Digital –

“If you look at 2021, 2022, the United States had seen a huge influx of immigrants from Mauritania. Somehow, a good number of them have landed in Lockland,

So, most of the immigrants living in Lockland are unable to work. And if they are unable to work, they’re unable to pay taxes. And they have essentially displaced the taxpaying residents of these 200 apartment units and filled them with non-tax-paying residents. We’re losing about $125,000 to 150,000 in revenue because of that.”

I don’t know how they found our small village. We like it. We think it’s a great place to live, but the quality of life here is definitely being affected by this problem.”

Mauritania,formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

From the Fox News story….A Washington Post analysis in June found that over 15,000 residents from Mauritania came to the U.S. last year, a 2,800% increase over 2022, when just 543 arrived. Lockland, a village in the southwest of Ohio of about 3,500 people. The Post reported that there were 2,700 who settled in Ohio in 2023, with about half of them going to nearby Cincinnati.

Lockland joins other Ohio communities including Springfield, Findlay and Lima facing many of the same problems. One question not answered is how do the immigrants in these communities arrive here and who is paying for the travel expenses. The number of communities continues to grow who are reporting the same issues.

Many questions at this time but very few answers.