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Mike DeWine: “I think the federal government has to start looking at…”

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine addresses false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets

Published | Video Starts at 05:33

But what the people of Springfield are saying is it's Just been so many people come in, it's not what we normally would expect. And frankly, Major, I think the federal government has to start looking at places like this and say, and treat it like you would a natural disaster. If we have a natural disaster in Ohio, we call the federal government, they come in and they do an assessment. (05:33–05:43)

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Asserts that the federal government should treat large surges of immigrants like natural disasters.

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