( NewsNation ) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is looking for legal avenues to curb the flow of migrants into the state following baseless claims that migrants have been stealing and eating pets in one city.
Social media posts have accused Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, population 58,000, of eating wildlife and pets, but local police say the claims are not true.
Yost’s office in a statement Monday said the attorney general would “find a way to get this disaster in front of a federal judge” in order to stop the U.S. government from “sending an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities.”
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Yost joined “Morning in America” on Tuesday to discuss the impact the migrant influx has had on Ohio communities.
“I’m hearing the same thing as everyone else, but I trust the local police,” Yost said of the claims about animals being eaten. “The real issue here is how can a city grow by a third from immigration and know nothing about it?”