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Sunday morning, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was featured on This Week to touch base on the statements made by Former President Donald Trump about Springfield, Ohio.During Tuesday's debate, Trump claimed Haitian immigrants were responsible for eating resident's pets in the city of Springfield.In his interview, DeWine said there is no evidence of immigrants eating pets, and the Haitians in Springfield are there legally.'They came to Springfield to work.
”He said that with the influx of immigrants, there have been some problems, but the population has grown immensely, and many of the immigrants need primary care and support to learn how to drive.“Well, sure, there's when you go from a population of 58,000 and add 15,000 people onto that, you're gonna have some challenges and some problems and we're addressing those, we're working on those every single day,” DeWine said. “Primary care is essential.
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