Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatened to revoke the legal status of Haitian migrants in the U.S. and deport them, once again falsely suggesting that they are endangering the majority-white city of Springfield, Ohio.
“Absolutely I’d revoke it, and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump told NewsNation on Wednesday when asked about Springfield’s Haitian residents. For weeks, he and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, have leveled racist attacks against that community.
“We cannot destroy our country. You had a beautiful, safe community, everyone’s in love with everybody, everyone’s nice, it was like a picture community, and all of a sudden in a short period of time they have 32,000 more people in there,” Trump said. “It doesn’t work, it can’t work. It has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else.”
The Trump campaign has claimed that Haitian migrants in Springfield are eating people’s pets and spreading communicable diseases, despite city officials repeatedly refuting those claims. The false accusations have put Springfield under national scrutiny. Most of the Haitians in Springfield are legally in the U.S. under the federal government’s temporary protected status program, known as TPS, but the Republican presidential ticket has nevertheless falsely claimed that they are “illegal aliens.”








