After the Supreme Court rightfully ruled that TPS holders can be deported, Sherrod Brown tripled down on giving Haitian illegals jobs over Ohioans.
During his 32 years in Washington, Brown defended the Biden-Harris administration’s program that flew illegals into Ohio, including Haitians to Springfield.
While Brown fought for illegals, Ohioans lost jobs and were crushed by the skyrocketing costs Brown created.
Now, Brown wants to raise Ohioans’ taxes to continue giving illegals tax-payer funded benefits.
“Sherrod Brown spent decades in Washington fighting to give jobs to illegals while Ohioans lost theirs. Brown puts illegals first and Ohioans last,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
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…“We should be focused on increasing economic opportunity for all Ohioans, not setting working families back further,” [Brown] said.
Earlier this year Brown said Ohio communities “depend on them to help our local economy thrive.” In 2024, during the height of the migrant arrivals in Springfield, he said the city needed “new people to help their economic growth.”
Those positions stand in contrast to employment and housing data from the same period. The Navistar plant in Springfield laid off at least 200 workers starting in 2019. The metro area then lost 1,100 jobs between December 2024 and December 2025. Overall employment fell to about 48,000 workers — a 2.2% drop that was the largest among Ohio’s 11 metro areas, according to federal labor data cited by the Springfield News-Sun.Housing costs rose at the same time. Rents in Springfield increased at a 14.6% annualized pace from May 2022 through the end of 2023 — the third-fastest rate among U.S. cities, Zillow data reported by Reuters show. Median sale prices for single-family homes more than doubled from $78,500 in August 2019 to $158,000 in August 2024, according to Redfin figures — outpacing the national increase of 46% over the same span. Average home values have continued climbing and now sit near $191,000.
Public assistance enrollment also rose sharply. Enrollment in Medicaid and federal food assistance programs surged in the Springfield area alongside the population increase, Reuters reported. TPS holders can qualify for SNAP, Medicaid and related aid when they meet income guidelines, according to Clark County guidance.