Vance Stands Firm on Springfield Migrant Assertions
Throughout the campaign, the rhetoric surrounding immigration from Donald Trump and JD Vance has become noticeably more nativist.
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Vice presidential candidate JD Vance has declined to retract the misleading statements he and his running mate, Donald Trump, have made during their campaign regarding Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. Instead, he expressed his irritation toward local officials and their management of the migrant situation.
In a recent interview with New York Times opinion podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Vance resisted addressing whether he regretted contributing to the spread of false rumors about Haitian migrants engaging in the abduction and consumption of pets. This unfounded conspiracy theory resulted in significant unrest within the community, including bomb threats and the closure of schools.
“It is disgraceful that American leaders pretend they care about these migrants more than they care about the people they took an oath of office to actually look after,” Vance stated.
Among those "American leaders" are Springfield Mayor Rob Rue and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, both Republicans, who have consistently repudiated the claims made by Trump and Vance.
Vance specified that he was “not talking about Mike DeWine,” who has publicly supported the Republican presidential ticket.
When asked if the repercussions of their inaccurate statements had been “worth it,” Vance pointed to the challenges faced by residents in Springfield, including escalating housing expenses, longer medical care wait times, and an increase in non-English speaking students in public schools. He attributed these issues to the arrival of Haitian migrants in the city, which has a population of around 60,000. He also criticized individuals who “don’t have the legal right to be in this country,” despite the fact that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are legally residing there under the Immigration Parole Program, which provides them with temporary protected status.
Trump and Vance's anti-immigration rhetoric, which resonates well with Republican voters, has become more nativist as the campaign has progressed.
During a rally in Aurora, Colorado, Trump reiterated false assertions that a Venezuelan gang had “conquered” the suburb of Denver, claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris had “imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens.”
If elected, Trump has vowed to implement the largest mass deportation in U.S. history and recently unveiled a plan to invoke a 1798 law to expel gang-affiliated undocumented immigrants.
As of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security estimated there were roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. However, Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed this number is more than double that, without offering credible evidence.
Vance indicated to Garcia-Navarro that it would be “reasonable” to deport around a million individuals annually. He added that it was unnecessary to deport every undocumented person, suggesting that policies aimed at taxing remittances and making it more difficult for them to find work could compel “a lot of them” to “actually leave the country willingly.”
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In a recent interview with New York Times opinion podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Vance resisted addressing whether he regretted contributing to the spread of false rumors about Haitian migrants engaging in the abduction and consumption of pets. This unfounded conspiracy theory resulted in significant unrest within the community, including bomb threats and the closure of schools.
“It is disgraceful that American leaders pretend they care about these migrants more than they care about the people they took an oath of office to actually look after,” Vance stated.
Among those "American leaders" are Springfield Mayor Rob Rue and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, both Republicans, who have consistently repudiated the claims made by Trump and Vance.
Vance specified that he was “not talking about Mike DeWine,” who has publicly supported the Republican presidential ticket.
When asked if the repercussions of their inaccurate statements had been “worth it,” Vance pointed to the challenges faced by residents in Springfield, including escalating housing expenses, longer medical care wait times, and an increase in non-English speaking students in public schools. He attributed these issues to the arrival of Haitian migrants in the city, which has a population of around 60,000. He also criticized individuals who “don’t have the legal right to be in this country,” despite the fact that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are legally residing there under the Immigration Parole Program, which provides them with temporary protected status.
Trump and Vance's anti-immigration rhetoric, which resonates well with Republican voters, has become more nativist as the campaign has progressed.
During a rally in Aurora, Colorado, Trump reiterated false assertions that a Venezuelan gang had “conquered” the suburb of Denver, claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris had “imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens.”
If elected, Trump has vowed to implement the largest mass deportation in U.S. history and recently unveiled a plan to invoke a 1798 law to expel gang-affiliated undocumented immigrants.
As of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security estimated there were roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. However, Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed this number is more than double that, without offering credible evidence.
Vance indicated to Garcia-Navarro that it would be “reasonable” to deport around a million individuals annually. He added that it was unnecessary to deport every undocumented person, suggesting that policies aimed at taxing remittances and making it more difficult for them to find work could compel “a lot of them” to “actually leave the country willingly.”
Mark B Thomas for TROIB News
