An Ohio sheriff warned the public via social media that supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign may be accosting additional guests at some point.
In a post Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zukowski appeared to be urging residents on his campaign page to write down addresses of supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“If people ask me…what happens if this flipping, laughing hyena wins???,” Zukowski wrote in the post. “I say…write down the addresses of all the people who have her signs in their yards!”
“So… when the illegal immigrant 'locusts' she supports need a place to live… we will already have the addresses of the new families who supported their arrival!” his post continued.
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Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zukowski is urging the public to write down addresses of Kamala Harris supporters so opponents can send illegal immigrants to Harris supporters. (Bruce Zukowski Facebook)
Zukowski He has served as Portage County sheriff since 2021 and has nearly 30 years of experience in law enforcement in Ohio, according to a biography posted on the department's website.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Portage County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Zukowski for comment.
The city of Springfield, Ohio, has been in the national spotlight in recent weeks for the influx of tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants into the town of 60,000 people, but residents say the infrastructure is not ready to accommodate them all and that crime is also a growing problem.
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People watch as officers from the Springfield Police Department investigate Springfield City Hall after a bomb threat was made on the building earlier that day, September 12, 2024, in Springfield, Ohio. Government buildings and schools were evacuated in Springfield, Ohio, following an alleged bomb threat on Thursday, local media reported. The small city at the center of an anti-immigrant conspiracy theory stoked by Donald Trump has been reeling. Springfield has been in the spotlight in recent days after an unfounded story about Haitian immigrants eating pets went viral on social media, with former Republican president and current White House candidate Trump pushing the theory despite it being found to be false. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
“It feels like we're living in a dystopian nightmare,” said Springfield resident Diana Daniels. “Fox and Friends“ In a previous interview, he said: “You wake up and it's 2019 all over again, and then all of a sudden it's 2024 and it's the same thing every day. It's hard sometimes to wake up in the morning and hear about the struggles of residents that you've known for years. This is paycheck to paycheck… It's a working class town. Residents who rely on social services like health care, Rocking Horse; [Community Health Center]”People who go to Social Security offices to apply for benefits are left waiting in line and not getting the services they need.”
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Attention on Springfield was renewed when Ohio Senator J.D. Vance appeared on X to claim that the city's residents' “pets were being kidnapped and eaten by people who should not be in this country.”
The next day, at the second presidential debate, Trump spoke about immigration and border security, making the same claim that Haitian refugees in Springfield were “eating dogs. They're not eating the people that are coming in, they're eating cats.”
“They're eating the pets of people who live there. This is what's going on in our country, and it's a shame,” Trump responded.
In response to inquiries from Fox News Digital, local officials refuted the claims that have surfaced online.
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“In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by immigrants in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific allegations that pets have been harmed, injured or abused by individuals within our immigrant community,” the city said.
Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
