Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumorsWhile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed.He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants
Author : Stephen Starr in Springfield, Ohio
Publish date : 2024-09-14 12:00:27
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Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up
