As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield. This rhetoric hurts the city and its people, and it hurts those who have spent their lives there.
Springfield is having a resurgence in manufacturing and job creation. Some of that is thanks to the dramatic influx of Haitian migrants who have arrived in the city over the past three years to fill jobs.
In recent weeks, despite denials from the city officials and DeWine himself, Trump and running mate Senator JD Vance amplified the bizarre and controversial rumor that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets in a bid to attack Vice President Kamala Harris's immigration record.
DeWine traced the history of Springfield, from prosperity to economic decline of the 1980s and 1990s before praising the Haitian community's contribution to the city’s resurgence.
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