Former president Donald Trump continued attacking the immigrant population in an Ohio town during a campaign rally Monday in Pennsylvania, saying, \u201cYou have to get them the hell out.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Trump spoke in Indiana, Pa., the crowd chanted, \u201cSend them back!\u201d<\/p>\n
For weeks now, Trump has singled out Springfield, Ohio, over its Haitian population, echoing baseless claims that immigrants are eating pets and calling the immigrants illegal, despite their legal status. His attacks have upended life in the small town, where the Republican mayor has pleaded for civility amid bomb threats and event cancellations for security reasons.<\/p>\n
Trump made his latest comments about Springfield at Monday\u2019s rally while accusing Democrats of wanting to \u201cinundate Pennsylvania communities\u201d with migrants, \u201cchanging the character of small towns and villages all over our country and changing them forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think Springfield will ever be the same?\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe fact is \u2014 and I\u2019ll say it now \u2014 you have to get them the hell out. You have to get them out. I\u2019m sorry. Get them out. Can\u2019t have it. \u2026 They\u2019ve destroyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s campaign promoted a video clip of Trump\u2019s comments on X.<\/p>\n
After the chants, Trump added: \u201cIt\u2019s terrible to say, and it\u2019s a tough thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has long promised mass deportations in his 2024 campaign for the White House, though he has not provided much detail. And his comments Monday appeared to continue conflating the situation in Springfield with concerns about illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s going on in Springfield is just fundamentally different,\u201d Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said in a recent TV interview. \u201cThese people are here legally. They came to work. These are good people.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeWine previously said the bomb threats the city faced were \u201cunfounded\u201d and that many came from overseas. They nonetheless disrupted daily life in Springfield, forcing evacuations and lockdowns in schools, hospitals and city hall. DeWine dispatched state troopers to beef up security at Springfield schools, saying they will \u201chelp ease some of the fears caused by these hoaxes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Springfield\u2019s mayor, Rob Rue, said Monday that residents are \u201cstill feeling anxiety from what their city has been put under since\u201d the Sept. 10 debate in which Trump falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants there are \u201ceating the pets.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve asked before \u2014 and we\u2019ll continue to ask \u2014 we need help, not hate,\u201d Rue told MSNBC in an interview. \u201cWe need peace, and I\u2019m asking the leaders on the national stage to speak well of our city and to understand the weight of their words and the impact it has had on our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
Growing emotional later in the interview, Rue said it has \u201cbeen a very stressful time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Former president Donald Trump continued attacking the immigrant population in an Ohio town during a campaign rally Monday in Pennsylvania, saying, \u201cYou have to get them the hell out.\u201d As Trump spoke in Indiana, Pa., the crowd chanted, \u201cSend them back!\u201d For weeks now, Trump has singled out Springfield, Ohio, over its Haitian population, echoing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}