Story: “Donald Trump backs his false claim that immigrants in Ohio are eating pets at a town hall packed with Latino voters hosted by the Spanish-language network Univison, broadcasting Noticias Univision Presents asked Donald Trump.
:: President Trump supports false immigration claims
Eating pets at City Hall, where Latino voters gather
“With all due respect, do you really believe that these people (Ohio immigrants) are eating other people’s pets?”
:: October 16, 2024
:: Miami, Florida
TRUMP: “This just got reported. I just said what was reported. It’s been reported, and they’re eating other things, and that’s not what it’s supposed to be. But… All I’m doing is reporting. I’m not reporting, I’m going to go there and investigate and I’ll give you a full report when I do. However, it was published in the newspapers and received fairly widespread coverage. ”
:: President Trump repeats people’s false claims
Sent to the United States from “mental hospitals and prisons”
“If we deport these people (illegal immigrants who work in agriculture), who will take the jobs and how much will they pay for food?”
Trump: “Many of the jobs you and other people have are being taken by people coming in, especially African Americans and Hispanics, as millions of people come in. They’re coming in, but they’re also coming in in significant numbers from psychiatric hospitals. They’re emptying out psychiatric hospitals. They’re emptying out psychiatric hospitals. There are bigger, bigger problems than that.”
In recent weeks, President Trump has amplified false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing residents’ pets and taking wild animals from parks for food.
There are no reliable reports of Haitians eating pets, and Ohio officials, including Republicans, have repeatedly said the stories are untrue.
At a town hall hosted by Spanish-language television Univision, an undecided Mexican-born Latino Republican voter in the battleground state of Arizona asked President Trump in Spanish if he really believed immigrants were eating their pets. did.
President Trump has not yet visited Springfield, but he has previously said he would carry out a mass deportation of Haitian immigrants from the Ohio city, even though the majority are in the United States legally. Ta.
The city has faced bomb threats since President Trump began repeating false accusations about Haitians.
One of the participants at the town hall, a Mexican-born farm worker from California, said he had been talking about picking strawberries and broccoli for years, but now President Trump has cut back on the millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. I asked who would do the hard labor if the plan to deport them was carried out. How will that affect food prices?
President Trump did not answer directly, instead claiming that African Americans and Hispanic Americans are losing jobs to illegal immigration. He also repeated baseless claims that Latin American countries are emptying their psychiatric hospitals and prisons to send people to the United States.
