A bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, came after Trump repeated baseless rumor about immigrants āeating petsā
Joe Biden on Friday said the hostile attacks on Haitian immigrants in the US ā[have] to stopā afterĀ Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim about a Haitian community in Ohio.
āIt is simply wrong that the proud Haitian community is under attack right now in this country,ā Biden said. āThereās no place in America. This has to stop ā what heās doing. It has to stop,ā the US president said at a White House event marking Black excellence.
The mayor of Springfield,Ā Ohio, earlier on Friday said thatĀ the bomb threatĀ made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools and other buildings was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the cityās Haitian community, following Donald Trumpās stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residentsā pets are being eaten.
Rob Rue, the mayor, accused nationalĀ Republicans who are amplifying wild rumors from a far-right provocateur that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are hunting and eating other peopleās pets of āhurting our cityā.
Too bad Biden put forward a far-right border bill that laundered the right-wing narrative that thereās a āborder crisisā and that people are flooding in. Fast-forward a few months, and here we are.
The politicians that attached their names to that bill are in-part to blame for legitimizing the racist, anti-immigrant lies weāre hearing today.
Dems need to grow a spine and meaningfully protect minority groups instead of naively aiding the right in demonizing them.