Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio blasted journalists for ignoring the harms of mass immigration after the mainstream media attacked his comments about unconfirmed claims that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
“You know what's been confirmed? A child was murdered by a Haitian immigrant who had no right to be here,” Vance said. response In a series of tweets on Tuesday:
You know what's confirmed? Children have been murdered by Haitian immigrants who have no right to be here. Local health services are overwhelmed. Communicable diseases like tuberculosis and HIV are on the rise. Local schools are struggling to accommodate the non-English-speaking newcomers. Rents have soared so many Springfield families can't afford to live in their homes.
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If you're a reporter or an activist who couldn't care less about suffering Americans until yesterday, here's some advice for you: Stop getting angry at your fellow citizens who are suffering because of Kamala Harris' policies. Get angry at yourself for letting this happen.
Breitbart News outlined the damage being done to the Springfield community by the Biden-Harris Administration's open borders economic policies, which seek to use mass legal and illegal immigration and budget deficits to grow the economy with low-wage jobs and high-value Wall Street stocks.
On Monday, Vance tweeted about the damage mass immigration has caused to the Springfield community, repeating unconfirmed claims that some migrants eat pets.
An unconfirmed rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets spread across social media yesterday, resulting in a wave of memes and AI art. However, local Springfield police stated So far, despite the spooky rumors circulating, there have been no reports of pets being stolen. origin It started with a Facebook post from a neighbor where a friend of her daughter had found a missing cat hanging outside a Haitian immigrant's home and being chopped up for consumption. Major media reporters quickly jumped on the fact that these rumors have yet to be corroborated.
for example, New York Times Written“The Trump campaign once again demonized immigrants on Monday in an attempt to attack Vice President Kamala Harris over immigration, pushing a wild and false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, kidnapped and ate a neighbor's pet.”
“Ohio authorities say they have no evidence, but J.D. Vance continues to make unsubstantiated claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets,” CBS News reported. Report.
“No, J.D. Vance, Haitian immigrants do not eat family pets,” he wrote. Esquire.
But as Vance points out, these reporters focus on unconfirmed rumors about immigrants eating pets while ignoring the real social and economic damage that mass immigration has inflicted on Americans in Springfield.
The death of the child Vance referred to in his tweet happened in August 2023, when an unlicensed Haitian driver crashed into a school bus. Forced The man had lived with his family in the relatively stable but impoverished South American country for several years before leaving them behind and migrating to the United States thanks to President Biden's open border policy.
Vance said in a statement that his office had “received numerous inquiries from Springfield residents about their neighborhood pets and local wildlife being kidnapped by Haitian immigrants.” But he later added, “[i]Of course, all of these rumors may turn out to be false.”
While these stories have not been corroborated, Vance encouraged his followers to “keep the cat memes flowing.”
Vance's points about the economic and civil damage caused by mass immigration are issues Breitbart News has covered extensively in its reporting on the toll of immigration on communities in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Rockland County, New York, and Aurora, Colorado.
Immigration policies also inflict significant macroeconomic damage on U.S. competitiveness vis-à-vis China, by inflating the domestic consumer economy while minimizing needed productivity investment in U.S. manufacturing and trade sectors.
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