In an IG vid, the singer -- a die-hard Democrat -- insisted no one in Springfield was eating cats or dogs. He also pointed out the city has seen an influx of jobs under President Joe Biden’s administration, after years of people leaving town to find work elsewhere.
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00:00I was born as John R. Stevens from a place called Springfield, Ohio.
00:08That's John Legend talking about his hometown of Springfield, the place where Trump insisted
00:13pets are being eaten by immigrants.
00:15And while that's total nonsense, Springfield does have a serious issue.
00:20So there's been an increase of around 20,000 Haitians to this relatively small city.
00:25The Haitians came here legally, let's be clear.
00:28John Legend, who is actually from Springfield, Ohio, says they're doing their job, so you
00:32should embrace it.
00:33These people came to Springfield because there were jobs for them, and they were willing
00:39to work.
00:40This is falling on very deaf ears with the residents of Springfield, Ohio, who are very
00:45upset about the increase in car accidents, the increase in crime.
00:49The residents are saying there's been an uptick in crime by 142%.
00:53And by the way, that's not just residents.
00:55That is FBI statistics.
00:56Yes, and Springfield residents are now dragging John Legend as an out-of-touch liberal, especially
01:02given his Democratic bona fides.
01:04Obviously, he's very, very much involved in Kamala Harris' campaign.
01:08Who's at the DNC?
01:09This does her no favors.
01:10No favors.
01:11We need to be a little bit fair in this position, right?
01:13We all came here from places in Europe, and when we came, we were hated just as much as
01:19those Haitians are now being hated.
01:21But here's the difference.
01:22I mean, we weren't giving them a lot of the social service benefits that we're giving
01:27these people.
01:28And what it does is it upsets a community when there aren't the services that they had
01:33before.
01:34That's why you have these quotas, where you allow a certain number in so that they can
01:39get on their feet, then you allow more in and more in and more in.
01:42We want immigrants to come to the country, which is why we have these quotas.
01:48So good luck, John Legend.
01:49You may not want to go home to Springfield for Christmas this year.
01:53How about we love one another?