President Joe Biden lashed out Friday at former president Donald Trump for his comments about a Springfield, Ohio, community that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to take a moment to say something [about the] Haitian American community that\u2019s under attack in our country right now,\u201d Biden said during a White House event celebrating Black Excellence. \u201cIt\u2019s simply wrong. There\u2019s no place in America. This has to stop, what he\u2019s doing. It has to stop!\u201d<\/p>\n
His remarks came several moments after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke, referencing her heritage as a Haitian American.<\/p>\n
Speaking as \u201cthe first Black, openly queer White House press secretary and, I\u2019ve got to add, a proud Haitian American,\u201d Jean-Pierre said of Biden: \u201cI can tell you, representation matters to him. Our voices matter to him, our perspectives matter to him and our success and our community matters to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city, about 25 miles east of Dayton, was thrust into the national spotlight this week when Trump, at Tuesday\u2019s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, amplified racist and xenophobic conspiracy theories about Haitian migrants, claiming that they were abducting people\u2019s pet dogs and cats and eating them.<\/p>\n
Members of the Haitian community in Springfield are there legally and have been granted temporary protected status in the United States after fleeing profound unrest and violence in their home country.<\/p>\n
The rhetoric has escalated, and numerous buildings in Springfield \u2014 including its City Hall and an elementary school \u2014 were evacuated Thursday due to a bomb threat that included \u201chateful language\u201d about the city\u2019s immigrant population.<\/p>\n
On Friday, two elementary schools were evacuated based on information received by the Springfield Police Division, the Columbus Dispatch reported. The Springfield City School District did not immediately return a voice message seeking comment.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), doubled down on his criticism of migrants Friday.<\/p>\n
Without citing evidence, Vance wrote on X: \u201cIn Springfield, Ohio, there has been a massive rise in communicable diseases, rent prices, car insurance rates, and crime. This is what happens when you drop 20,000 people into a small community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vance went on to charge that the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, \u201caims to do this to every town in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Vance told The Washington Post that he would provide evidence for the senator\u2019s claims but did not say when.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Vance conceded on X, \u201cIt\u2019s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false,\u201d before he went on to claim inaccurately that a Haitian migrant \u201cmurdered\u201d a child in the city last year. The boy\u2019s grieving father said Tuesday night the death of his son, Aiden Clark, was the result of an accident, and he has demanded an apology from Vance and others who have falsely described it. The 11-year-old was killed last year when the school bus he was riding in was hit by a vehicle driven by a Haitian immigrant who did not have a license.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsing Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose,\u201d Nathan Clark said at a public meeting Tuesday. He later named Vance, Trump and other politicians. \u201cThey have spoken my son\u2019s name and use his death for political gain. This needs to stop now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Officials in Springfield and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) have said the rumors of pet-eating migrants are unfounded.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
President Joe Biden lashed out Friday at former president Donald Trump for his comments about a Springfield, Ohio, community that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants. \u201cI want to take a moment to say something [about the] Haitian American community that\u2019s under attack in our country right now,\u201d Biden said during a White House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9535","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\/9535","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=9535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}