Ohio man claims family was told to hire a translator for four-year-old to attend preschool because the child is the only student who doesnt speak Spanish

A man from Ohio has shared his shock over learning his grandson was told he would need a translator for him to attend preschool in the state. 

In a minute-long video, the man claims his daughter had recently attended a meet and greet at her sons preschool only to find that he would be the only one in attendance to speak English.

Staff at the school in New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County, but which has not been named outright, told the boys mother that she would need to pay for a translator for the child to attend if he wanted to be taught in English. 

My daughter enrolled my four-year-old grandson into preschool last week and they have a little meet and greet, he began.

A man from Ohio has taken to TikTok to express his shock after his grandson was told he would need a translator for him to attend preschool in the state

I live in small town Ohio. She takes him down to the meet and greet where they tell her the she has to hire a translator with her own money in order to send him to pre-school because he is the only student that doesn’t speak Spanish. Really?

The man appeared incredulous at the suggestion that she should have to pay for a translator out of her own money.

Obviously she didn’t do it and she pulled him out of pre-school, he explained.

This migrant problem is not a red state, blue state thing because I like in a red state and we’re overrun with them. It’s our whole government. It’s all of them, the man went on. 

Can you believe that? Can’t go to pre-school because he doesn’t speak Spanish. Unbelievable.

Although the specific preschool has not been identified, it is well documented how Ohio looking to attract more migrant refugees to the area in a bid to improve the states economic output.

Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico during their journey north toward the U.S. border

The man explained how his daughter was asked to pay for a translator for his grandson to learn English

The state capital Columbus, already home to 900,000 residents, was recently named as the fastest growing metro area in the country and now city leaders are looking to continue such growth - and they say attracting immigrants is the answer.

Donald Trump won the largely red state by 8-percentage-points in 2020, yet despite its Republican leanings, the states capital has become welcoming towards migrants.

But there are real concerns from Ohioans about how the city might meet the needs of a sudden influx of refugees with worries over a possible rise in crime, not to mention the language barrier with just 3 percent the states residents able to speak Spanish.

One Republican, Bernie Moreno, took to X last month claiming that because of the current administrations policies, migrants have destroyed Ohio communities. 

Columbus, Ohio is looking to attract more migrants refugees to the area in a bid to improve the citys economic output

Columbus Democratic Mayor Andrew J. Ginther has made the place a sanctuary city in all but name

Don DePerro CEO of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce says the city needs to continue to welcome refugees

Moreno, himself a migrant, is a Cleveland businessman and is running to win the seat occupied by Democrat Sherrod Brown since 2007 in one of the most closely watched in the country.

Moreno did not go into specifics as to which cities have been destroyed but his comments appeared to stoke fears of migrants arriving following a surge at the southern border earlier in the year.

Some have claimed that undocumented migrants commit more crime than people born in the United States, although research from 2021 suggested such claims were false.

Moreno has been vocal in his use of rhetoric over immigration repeatedly referring to what has been occurring at the southern border as an invasion.

Republican, Bernie Moreno, took to X last month claiming that because of the current administrations policies, migrants have destroyed Ohio communities

Moreno, himself a migrant, is a Cleveland businessman and is running to win the seat occupied by Democrat Sherrod Brown since 2007 in one of the most closely watched in the country

Although Columbus does not refer to itself as a sanctuary city, it does follow sanctuary policies. 

It means Columbus displays a particularly welcoming attitude towards migrants arriving in the city. 

In 2015 a Police Division Directive was adopted that banned local law enforcement from detaining or arresting illegal aliens for ICE without a warrant or observation of a crime.

The directive also rules out the use of city funds or personnel for the sole purpose of detecting or apprehending any person based on … suspected immigration status, except in response to a court order.

We are in an economic and cultural boom. It also comes with its challenges. More people need more homes, more transportation, more child care, more health care and more teachers. Businesses tell us every day that they need more people in the labor force, Columbus Democratic Mayor Andrew J. Ginther and Don DePerro CEO of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce wrote in an op-ed for USA Today.

As two proud leaders ... we need to continue welcoming refugees. Our American-born labor force is aging, and Ohioans are having fewer children. Welcoming refugees is not just the right thing to do, it also makes economic sense.

Jorge Herrera, from Nicaragua, works on a factory floor in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this year

Columbus is becoming an increasingly popular destination for migrants. More than 9,000 immigrants had a Columbus address in new immigration court proceedings in fiscal year 2023, a 350 percent increase from fiscal year 2019, according to immigration court data made available by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Overall in Ohio since the start of the 2024 fiscal year, the Biden administration has issued around 16,300 work permits to asylum applicants and certain people who received humanitarian parole, including under the new legal pathways, a Department of Homeland Security official said. 

But the arrival of record numbers of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border has posed a political problem for Biden against former President Trump, who has made cracking down on immigration a top issue in his campaign.

A White House spokesperson said the Biden administration has called on Congress to pass bipartisan immigration reform legislation that has been stymied by Republicans. 

It has also sped up processing work permits and created new legal pathways through which hundreds of thousands of migrants were immediately eligible to apply for permits.