Source: Common Dreams
“U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his attack on the Haitian immigrant community of Springfield, Ohio on Friday when he promised to begin his mass deportation plan there if elected president. ‘We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations,’ Trump told reporters at his golf course near Los Angeles, California. ‘We’re going to get these people out. We’re bringing them back to Venezuela.’ Trump’s remarks come despite the fact that most of the immigrants in Springfield are from Haiti and are in the country legally. Trump had previously pledged to deport the 15 to 20 million people who he says are or will be in this country illegally by the time he takes office. Speaking on Friday, he repeated his vow to carry out ‘the largest deportations in the history of our country,’ starting in Springfield and Aurora, Colorado, where online rumors have exaggerated isolated incidents of Venezuelan gang activity.” (09/14/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deportations-haitians