Racist claims by right-wing Republicans about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are giving way to physical attacks against Haitian families, some of whom are keeping their children from school today to protect them.
Aside from the anxiety caused by Tuesday night’s debate, the woman also said her cars have been vandalized twice in the middle of the night. She woke up one morning to broken windows and another to acid thrown on the vehicle. She’s added cameras to her driveway and tried to report the incidents to the police to no avail.
Rightwing politics is stochastic terrorism.
Over the past few months, nearly 20,000 Haitians have settled in Springfield over the past four years.
Which is it? Months or years? I hate the death of journalism and lack of copy editing.
“They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the Border crisis and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members,” Clark continued. “However they are not allowed nor have they ever been allowed to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield Ohio.
That’s quite a principled stand, allowing for lies about other subjects. Why not condemn all of it.
They want these attacks on immigrants to happen so they can step up the immigration causes problems attacks, is anyone on the right caring enough, or aware enough, to try to stop the self fulfilling prophecy?
If you think one of the most dangerous and heavily guarded borders in the world is "open", I'd love to hear what you call our border with Canada and why more people aren't coming through there instead.