Former US President Donald Trump’s statement that Haitian immigrants eat cats shook the small Ohio town of Springfield, and then added that he would deport the migrants from the settlement, the BBC wrote.
We’ll start with Springfield
– said the Republican presidential candidate on Friday local time, adding that the city was ruined by immigration.
President Joe Biden called for calm after the statement and called the criticism of Springfield’s Haitians “simply wrong.” The Republican presidential candidate’s promise came after Tuesday’s debate, where he said that pets in Springfield are being killed and eaten by Haitian immigrants. That claim was immediately denied by the city’s police chief and mayor, as well as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.
City officials say the cat-eating allegation shocked the community and prompted several threats to close local schools. On Friday, three institutions had to be evacuated due to a bomb alarm, and the town hall also had to be evacuated on Thursday.
He confused the immigrants, who were outraged by his statement
Donald Trump was asked at a press conference on Friday if he would consider visiting the city. It was then that he made the campaign promise that he would deport Haitians to Venezuela. There may be some confusion behind the statement, as the Haitians came to the United States with a permit as part of a federal program, but Venezuelans actually came to Arizona, among whom a criminal group called Tren de Aragua was arrested on Wednesday.
“He doesn’t care about Colorado. He’s using us as political puppets to push his racist agenda, which casts our entire community in a bad light, and we’re not going to fall for him,” said Gladis Ibarra, head of the Colorado Coalition for Immigrant Rights. “We will not allow immigrants to be demonized,” Axios quoted Ibarra as saying.
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2024-09-15 16:37:06