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Migrants Invite More Migrants to Cincinnati: 50 People in One House
2024-06-13
[Breitbart] The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses, straining the town’s resources and apparently breaking occupancy laws.

Even this man, who is working to facilitate the flood of illegals into the U.S., says that the federal government is just letting too many people come to the U.S. all at once.

Oumar Ball, a man native to the small majority Muslim West African country of Mauritania, arrived in Cincinnati in 2000. By 2010, he had become a U.S. citizen. Now, he is working to settle as many of his fellow Muslims in Cincinnati’s Mount Airy neighborhood as he can. However, he has often encountered a problem in the Queen City: housing.

The city does not have a shelter system, and there is no “right to shelter” like there is in Massachusetts and New York. So, Ball has struggled to find places for his migrant friends to stay. The housing issue has caused him to stockpile them illegally in tiny apartments and homes of volunteers, including his own.

“It’s not uncommon to find apartments with 10 or 14 people in a two-bedroom apartment,” said fellow Cincinnati Mauritania activist Ousmane Sow. “And it’s all because none of us want to see Mauritanians out in the streets.”

The problem is growing, too. Doug Wehmeyer, the administrator and fire chief in Lockland, says that the number of migrants from Mauritania has doubled to 3,000.

Ball himself has had upwards of 50 people illegally living in his own home.

Occupancy rates in Ohio for single-family homes generally only allow two people per bedroom to live in a home or apartment. However, some exceptions can be made if authorities are tasked with making a determination, and, sometimes, four people per bedroom is permitted if they are underage. But, certainly, 14 or 15 people in a two-bedroom apartment is not legal. Ohio also generally limits apartment living to a family of five, no more, and certainly not large groups of people who are unrelated to each other.

Ball has been helping these migrants get jobs in places like the meatpacking industry in the river-side city. Mauritanian migrants have been hungrily gobbling up jobs at Tyson Foods and other manufacturing sites, including General Electric and Johnson & Johnson.

Still, the wave of migrants from the war-torn African nation has taxed even Mr. Ball and his friends. He thinks it is long past time that the federal government start putting limits on immigration.

“If they could close our borders for just a little bit,” Ball told the paper. “That would be great because right now too many people are coming and it’s too much … Everyone is tired.”

Ball’s wife, Aminata Ba, is also coming to her wit’s end. Since Ball recently lost his job, the family and the hundreds of fellow Mauritanian migrants coming to her with their hands out for food, clothes, and help, are taxing her small income at the Amazon warehouse where she works.

“We have had over 300 people pass through this house because they know my husband has a heart,” Ba told the Post. “I buy everything for them — deodorant, toothpaste, soap. When they come across the border, they show up with one pair of pants and one shirt.”

“I can’t keep doing this over and over again,” she said, echoing how the rest of the citizens of the United States feel about President Joe Biden’s wide-open border policy.
This is not a new problem in Cincinnati. That it, it’s new that they are Mauritanians, but illegals from Mexico and points south have been doing the same thing in Cincinnati for at least twenty years — currently 12th worst in the US, according to Orkin’s annual list. Probably why the city has had a severe bedbug problem for almost as long.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Gottem' stacked like a slave ship.

-sips water-
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-06-13 15:42  

#6  They pay taxes?
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-06-13 09:55  

#5  Ball himself has had upwards of 50 people illegally living in his own home.

Did he get approval from the City Zoning Department? More than 4 unrelated folks living in one standalone dwelling usually upsets those folks as it wouldn't be zoned or taxed properly.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2024-06-13 08:30  

#4  DHS chief Mayorkas questioned on reports of 'mass amnesty' for asylum seekers
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-06-13 06:31  

#3  Slavery is still endemic in Mauritania, by the way. The pattern of chain migration will be interesting here.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-06-13 04:21  

#2  Talk about national suicide.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-06-13 01:24  

#1  Migrants continue to stream into Boston airport as more than 100 sleep on the floor
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-06-13 00:09  

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