The immigrants are mainly in the United States under temporary protected status, which the executive branch can grant to people whose home countries are in crisis.
Racist emails. Swatting. Intimidated sources. The Haitian Times has been receiving some of the same threats that it has been covering in Springfield, Ohio.
Donald Trump told a raucous crowd that he would soon visit Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo., two cities that are focal points of his exaggerated claims about migrants in America.
They charged Donald J. Trump and JD Vance, who spread baseless rumors that Haitians in an Ohio city were eating pets, with imperiling their community for political gain.
“It may seem like just politics,” said Karl Racine, who served two terms as attorney general for the District of Columbia and immigrated to the United States from Haiti when he was 6. “But it’s serious business, with the real possibility of violence.”
Readers discuss the harm from the lies about immigrants eating dogs and cats. Also: The guns; Americans in exile; the pope and the election; the debates.
“We must take every threat seriously, but children deserve to be in school, and parents deserve to know that their kids are safe,” Gov. Mike DeWine said.
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