The American right is inciting a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Ohio
The people of Springfield, Ohio, are enduring bomb threats, hate and vandalism because of xenophobic smears
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Does it even matter that the Haitian immigrants who have flocked to Springfield,
Ohio, are in the country legally? Does it matter that Springfield, once a depressed post-industrial Rust belt town like so many others, has been
economically revitalized by their arrival? Does it matter that the immigrants from Haiti fled violence and economic deprivation in their own country that are the outcome of American policy? Does it matter that none of the bizarre lies that have been peddled about them by
Donald Trump,
JD Vance and others on the right, telling lurid tales of the migrants
capturing and killing local pets, are true?
Two elementary schools in Springfield had to be evacuated because of threats of violence. Think about that: someone contacted Springfield authorities and made threats against grade-school children that were credible enough that the
buildings had to be evacuated for the sake of safety.
Haitian immigrants in Springfield
told news outlets that they were afraid to leave their homes. There were reports of broken windows and acid thrown on cars. There is a word for this kind of large-scale, organized violence against a local ethnic enclave. That word is pogrom.
The people of Springfield, Ohio, are enduring bomb threats, hate and vandalism because of xenophobic smears
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