“They’re in the park grabbing up ducks by they neck and cutting they head off and walking up with them and eating them,” the man said, imploring the commission to rein in the migrants. Another woman at a previous meeting said she’d seen migrants field-dressing roadkill on the side of the highway, and snatching park birds to cook up in “some barbaric stew.” “People have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country,” Vance wrote on X Monday. Over the last four years, the city’s migrant Haitian population has grown by 15,000 to 20,000 people — increasing Springfield’s population by as much as one-third, according to city officials. Many residents and local politicians — including Vance — have expressed outrage at the influx, claiming the Haitian population has strained the city’s services and left legal Americans in the lurch.