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Racial tensions in Springfield have simmered for months. Trump’s rhetoric now has Haitians there in a full-blown ‘panic’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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After Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance helped supercharge a false, racist rumor that Haitian refugees in small-town Ohio were stealing and consuming people’s household pets, the fiction was duly parrotted by running mate Donald Trump during a nationally televised debate against Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs,” the former president insisted, wildly, at the Tuesday evening event. “The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”

A day earlier, the Trump-Vance campaign issued a press release baselessly accusing “unvetted” Haitians of consuming not only domestic animals, but hunting and eating local wildlife, such as ducks and geese, as well.

The compounding myths, which the leader of notorious neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe gleefully took credit for having helped popularize, were swiftly debunked by, among others, the Springfield mayor, city manager, and police department.

But the claims have not only inflamed existing tensions in Springfield, they have also managed to further traumatize a group of people who fled civil war and ceaseless gang violence for the sleepy Rust Belt town of 58,000.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

It is not a settled matter of law that the protections and rights provided by the Constitution to "the People" extend to non-citizens, even when those non-citizens are legal immgrants with long-standing ties to their community in the United States.

These people may not have the legal right to defend themselves, verbally or physically. It is entirely possible that the current SCOTUS would deny them the right to free speech; the right to bear arms; the right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure; the right not to incriminate themselves; the rights to speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, and legal counsel; or the protection from excessive bail and cruel or unusual punishment.

This is how the threatened "mass deportations" are going to happen, and it will be completely legal. Hell, deportations? They could be executed without trial, and that would still be legal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I think something that could really help would be for people in power to give these immigrants a platform to tell their story, why they're here, and what their life is like. The fascists fuel their movement by dehumanizing the other. We should be trying to publicly humanize them as much as possible to counter that.

But I also totally understand why they wouldn't want to be put under that kind of spotlight. Unfortunately, that's exactly what these Republican domestic terrorists want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

But I also totally understand why they wouldn't want to be put under that kind of spotlight. Unfortunately, that's exactly what these Republican domestic terrorists want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

were swiftly debunked

This phrase always annoys me. Debunking means that you can prove something isn't true. I.e. proving a negative.

There is absolutely no evidence to say Trumps statements are true, but we can't say they were debunked.