Source: The Intercept
by Jonah Valdez
“Springfield, Ohio, resident Tracy Paschke-Johannes tuned into Tuesday night’s presidential debate from her home, anxious about whether former President Donald Trump would spew the anti-immigrant rumors about Haitians living in her city that have been circulating online and on TV over the last several days. It took Trump less than five minutes. … Experts and advocates who pay close attention to the issue share Paschke-Johannes’s concerns, fearing physical harm, loss of jobs, criminalization, and negative mental health affects for Haitian and other Black immigrants across the U.S., fueled by Trump’s comments on a stage that close to 67 million people watched. Such comments and the harm that follows, they said, didn’t begin with Trump but is rooted in a long legacy in the United States of discrimination against immigrants — specifically Black immigrants and people coming from Haiti.” (09/12/24)
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/12/trump-springfield-haiti-cats-dogs-racism-immigration/