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The Story of Immigrants Eating Pets in Springfield, Ohio: What Do The Demagogical Dem Demographics Tell Us About Their State of State?
The story of Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, is not an accurate one and is echoed on the debate stage and on social media.
Mr. Vance said that the claims — which have been debunked by city officials in Springfield, and which resemble smears that have been lodged against immigrants for decades — had come from “firsthand” accounts from his constituents. He told one of the interviewers that she should ignore the bomb threats, since she was a democrat, and focus on the policies of the Vice President, since she was a democrat.
Except, as we’ve explained before, the supposedly “real” narrative Vance is pushing about Haitian migrants in Springfield is also untrue. During the CNN interview, Vance said Harris “allowed 20,000 Haitian migrants to get dropped into a small Ohio town,” implying that Springfield’s growing Haitian community was the result of a coordinated campaign by Harris and President Joe Biden. The term “migrants” implies that the Haitians who have recently moved to Springfield did so shortly after crossing the border. In fact, according to reports from publications, including The New York Times, they’ve largely relocated to Springfield from other states, including Florida and Georgia — and were drawn there by word of mouth, not because of some federal recruitment scheme. On a recent episode, I talked about how the rumors fuel the great replacement conspiracy theory.
Vance said that he will create stories so that the American media pays attention to the suffering of the American people. When Bash asked if he created the story, Vance said he’d heard first hand accounts from his constituency. The American media are focusing on it because we are creating a story meaning. “I didn’t create 20,000 illegal migrants coming in Springfield thanks to Kamala Harris’ policies. We created the focus but that’s not something her policies did.
“This is what Kamala Harris wants to do to every town in this country,” Mr. Vance said on CBS. Overwhelm them with migration, stress their municipal budgets, and watch communicable diseases on the rise. If the open border policies are allowed to continue, Springfield is only the start of what will happen in this country.
The mayor says federal politicians need to know they are hurting the city when they say negatively about it.
“I want whoever made these threats to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” he told Margaret Brennan of CBS. “But we don’t believe, Margaret, in a heckler’s veto in this country.” He added that we should forget about the threats of violence made against a small Ohio town because we have a vice president who isn’t doing her job.
Mr. Vance called the question “more appropriate for a Democratic propagandist than it is for an American journalist” and denied that his and Mr. Trump’s words had any connection to the threats that immediately followed them.
During a Sunday interview on CNN, the Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential nominee said his evidence for this claim was “the first-hand accounts of my constituents.” He went on to argue that the story had been false.
The Aurora Police Department has said this is not hyperbole after Trump told reporters at a news conference in California he would deport the Haitian migrants in Springfield.
“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country,” the Republican presidential nominee said. “We are going to start with Springfield and Aurora.”
Governor Mike DeWine is going to provide law enforcement and health care aid to the city of Springfield, in response to the recent influx of Haitians.
“If you talk to people, particularly people who are working with the Haitians, what they’ll tell you is they’re very hard workers,” DeWine said. “We had one person the other day saying, I wish I had 100 more working for me … Look, these are good people. The people in Springfield are good people.”
Comment on “Gravitating a Cat in the Grill” by J. D. Rufo and X. J. P. Vance
“To be clear: this single incident does not confirm every particularity of Trump’s statement,” Rufo wrote. “But it does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its ‘fact checkers,’ who insisted that this has never happened, and that any suggestion otherwise is somehow an expression of racism. It takes only one exception to change a hypothesis and the logical next step is to ask if it is happening more often, and elsewhere.
A day before he went on CNN, Vance claimed that, despite the media’s claims that the rumors about Haitians were baseless, the story “turned out to have merit.” The video Rufo obtained showing African migrants grilling cats was published on a post by a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. The video has been disputed by a number of people who say that the animal on the grill is most likely to be three chickens rather than a cat.
There were a number of right-wing posts on X which were promoted by the platform and its CEO but also amplified by former President Donald Trump on the debate stage. Racist and violent images from the far-right echo chamber have spilled out and are putting real people in danger.