Indiana AG to probe reported 'unsustainable' influx of Haitian migrants into state's small towns

FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is investigating coordinated efforts by planetary and section nonprofit organizations, arsenic good arsenic employers and a wellness department, to bring migrants —including those without ineligible presumption — into Indiana communities.

"Illegal migration caused by 'border czar' Kamala Harris' perversion and misapplication of national instrumentality has made each authorities a borderline authorities and imposed unsustainable costs connected Logansport and different cities crossed the nation," Rokita told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

"It has besides created superior enactment and labour trafficking risks successful each communities. I’m creatively trying to usage each instrumentality successful the instrumentality to halt the Left's intentional demolition of Indiana."

Logansport has a colonisation of 18,366 according to the 2020 Census.

Rokita's bureau filed six Civil Investigative Demands (CID) connected Friday, Fox News Digital learned first. The recipients are: the Cass County Health Department, Berry Global packaging company, the Evansville-based nonprofit God is Good foundation, the Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation, the Logansport Community School Corporation and the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a web of implicit 400 large companies connecting refugees to jobs.

HAITIAN MIGRANTS OVERWHELMING SMALL INDIANA TOWN: ‘IT’S JUST OVERRUN’

This divided shows migrants successful Mexico, and the municipality of Logansport, Indiana. (Fox News/ Photo by Christian Torres Chavez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images))

The investigations volition instrumentality spot successful Evansville, Logansport, and Seymour, arsenic officials judge the influx of noncitizens is an alleged "coordinated effort" betwixt nonprofits and employers to pull migrant workers. 

Rokita's bureau said the swift summation successful migrant populations has led to overcrowded housing, with aggregate families and sometimes dozens of individuals surviving successful homes meant for azygous families. The situation has besides raised concerns astir imaginable labour trafficking.

The investigative request for Cass County Health Department comes arsenic the wellness section has been inspecting apartments and residences, according to the CID. 

Investigators are besides seeking to cognize if immoderate individuals residing successful overcrowded residences were employed by oregon contracted to supply services for the proprietor oregon manager, arsenic good arsenic the fig of individuals observed successful the residence and their citizenship status.

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This representation shows the municipality of Logansport, Indiana. (Fox News)

Last month, residents successful the municipality of Logansport, Indiana, said that an influx of migrants from Haiti and different countries into their small municipality is overwhelming services. Logansport's politician estimates the colonisation has grown by 20%-30% since 2021, astir of that being Haitians moving in. More than 3,000 Haitians person arrived.

Meanwhile, successful numbers archetypal reported by the New York Post, the fig of Haitian students successful the schools has gone from 14 to 207.

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 Then-Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., listens during the House Education and the Workforce Committee proceeding connected "State of American Schools and Workplaces: Expanding Opportunity successful America's Schools and Workplaces" connected Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015.  (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

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Others person pointed to different effects of Haitian migration, with 1 parent telling the Post her girl was accosted by Haitian migrants arsenic she walked to a adjacent java shop. Multiple residents besides told Fox News the caller arrivals marque them consciousness uncomfortable and unsafe, with 1 pistillate saying immoderate of the antheral Haitian migrants successful municipality would "stop successful beforehand of our structure and conscionable halt and stare. They don't accidental a word. They conscionable stare. It's unnerving."

Fox News DIgital's Adam Shaw, Garrett Tenney and Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.