Tom Nichols is a journalist for The Atlantic Magazine who supports Haitian immigration to Newport. | X, formerly Twitter
Tom Nichols is a journalist for The Atlantic Magazine who supports Haitian immigration to Newport. | X, formerly Twitter
Newport resident and political journalist Tom Nichols voiced his support Saturday for increased Haitian immigration to the U.S., including to cities like Newport.
Nichols expressed disgust that the Vice Presidential Candidate and U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) would oppose Kamala Harris’ moving of 20,000 Haitians into Springfield, Ohio, population 58,106.
“I warned you about him. And I didn’t think it would be this bad,” Nichols wrote in a Sept. 14 social media post on X, responding to a Vance statement slamming Harris for causing a “slow-moving humanitarian crisis in a small Ohio town.”
“In Springfield, Ohio, there has been a massive rise in communicable diseases, rent prices, car insurance rates, and crime. This is what happens when you drop 20,000 people into a small community,” Vance wrote on X. “Kamala Harris's immigration policy aims to do this to every town in our country.”
Creole-speaking Haitian illegal aliens now make up approximately one-third of the population in Springfield, which is 30 miles northeast of Dayton.
Newport, population 24,684, could become one-third Haitian by importing only 8,000 Haitians from the island nation of 11.4 million.
A Sept. 14 report by investigative journalist Chris Rufo included video of illegal aliens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo now living in Dayton, grilling a cat.
“They had a blue grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. “Her dad was going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.”
The Harris Department of Justice has erected billboards in Springfield written in Haitian Creole language, encouraging Haitians living in the town to call the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to report any criticism of them for criminal prosecution.
Tom Nichols, 63, is a staff writer for The Atlantic where he “writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world.. He previously taught at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport for 25 years.
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