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These folks in Springfield *are* here legally, under Temporary Protected Status.
"Oh, but they need to be working, not leeching off of social services."
They are! Local business leaders say they work harder than many long-time residents! 2/
"Oh, but we don't want the crime or drugs."
Good news! The city and the police say they've seen no uptick in crime related to the Haitians (though traffic problems - Ohio needs tighter car safety training for new adult drivers, as its GOP gov. noted) 3/
Then you've got the "oh, but we want *Christian* immigrants" from certain quarters. BS line for a country with the first amendment, but guess what - these Haitians are Christians, and generally *more* religious than most Americans! 4/
In short, these Haitians in Springfield on Temporary Protected Status are *everything* that immigration restrictionists said they wanted: legal/documented, hard-working, low-crime, all of it.
And the Trump campaign is *still* demonizing them, encouraging hate. 5/
Now to be fair, that's not the response of all GOP leaders. Mike DeWine, who supports Trump, is up in that video defending this community - so maybe he believed it when he said it.
But for many of the rest, it's so clear that all of that "but only legally" was just a lie. /end
This video about what Drumpf and Vance are doing is called Blood Libel. It happened in Europe during medieval period towards Jewish people. It unfortunately may be the cause of violence that ends with people dead.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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As ever, @jbouie is insightful: Springfield dogs & cats is not a meme; it is blood libel: incitement to racist violence. I've been thinking about his recent column: their insane rhetoric is meaningless on the surface, but deadly meaningful underneath. Media are missing this.
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That is absolutely correct. We've seen this play before and it is designed to end in violence.
Violence that destroys minority communities, but also impoverishes and diminishes their non-minority neighbors.
No one gains, except the racist demagogues who use it to say in power.
Their attack has just caused two more Springfield schools to be evaluated for bomb threats. They make American children their target enemy
Good heavens, I didn't know about the bomb threats.
But that's the predictable result of this kind of hateful rhetoric, which again is premised on *lies.*
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
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So this thing Vance is saying is not true, and Vance knows it is not true. It is confirmed to be a lie.
But he's saying it because whipping up an anti-Haitian pogrom, while it will hurt Ohioans (lost lives, damaged businesses), he thinks it will help him politically.
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On DAY ONE, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all they could to throw our borders WIDE OPEN – and Sherrod Brown did NOTHING to stop them.
Now MILLIONS of illegals are flooding our nation. Take a stand against open borders and sign your name!
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Pro tip: when people say they just want immigrants to come here legally, they’re not talking about black immigrants.
I bet the ancestors of many of the "come here legally" crowd were allowed in under much less stringent criteria. Probably, you're on the ships manifest, you look healthy, welcome to America.
‘This reading aligns with common sense,’ Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in a decision that could have big implications for deportation proceedings.
It’s all a ruse, to steer attention away from how awful Trump did at debate, how they’ve got no platform, no real policy plans- and to just keep churning hate.
Thank you for posting this factual & articulate description of what is happening to the people in OH. Btw looked into your historical posts and love your content.
Well said! Here are actual problems JD Vance ignores. Ohio has 2 of the top 5 fentynal trafficking sites in the US.
It proves that it never was about immigrants being here legally or illegally. It was that their skin color is not white.
Can we just get on the same page: IT’S ALL A LIE. The outrage is all performative. What they cared about 30 years ago no longer exists. MAGA is all lies. It’s all they’ve got.
Salam, here is your unroll: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1834617 Share this if you think it's interesting. 
On DAY ONE, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all they could to throw our borders WIDE OPEN – and Sherrod Brown did NOTHING to stop them.
Now MILLIONS of illegals are flooding our nation. Take a stand against open borders and sign your name!
They can say anything they want. We all know what the real problem is. They're the wrong color. If thousands of people came in from, say, France or Finland they wouldn't be upset.
Can I add, Vance & Drumpf seem to be taking the cue from Nazi White Supremacists. Which means surprise, surprise, their campaign is talking to & taking cues from scum of the earth humans.
The one caveat that really matters is, "Oh, but we want them to be white."
A woman I know was absolutely insistent that her dog - that accidentally got out when she left the gate open - MUST have been kidnapped by Mexican immigrants from a neighboring city. His being missing couldn’t possibly be her fault. Turned out the dog had been run over by a car.
I’m from Ohio, and Vance is a disgrace to the state. If you are from Ohio go to his website and make your voice heard.
They just need to be truthful and admit they only want white immigrants that lie to get Einstein visas.
I'd rather live in a Haitian neighborhood than MAGAtville.
So much is distorted by today's republican politics. A point to remember is that any Haitians who happen to be living in Ohio are human beings and, as such, they should not be vilified and terrorized. So many republican supporters are stupid enough to believe Trump and Vance.
You forgot “oh but we just want them to be white.” I grew up in an Ohio town where it was illegal to sell property to a person of color. The Klan way of life is still alive and well today, as evidenced by an Ohio Senator turning on one of his own cities.
False. TPS is not "coming here legally"; it is coming here illegally and being granted a temporary waiver from removal by DHS, as well as permission to compete for jobs with lawful residents. uscis.gov/humanitarian/t
On DAY ONE, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all they could to throw our borders WIDE OPEN – and Sherrod Brown did NOTHING to stop them.
Now MILLIONS of illegals are flooding our nation. Take a stand against open borders and sign your name!
I don't even understand any reason, tactically speaking, to double down on blatant racism here. It doesn't bring in votes, it's going to push away the remaining moderates, and it's not really firing up the base either. Genuinely an unforced error that could cost them the election
This is the same strategy he used in Ohio to win his senate seat. With the help of his sugardaddy, he significantly outspent Ryan.
It's a different game J.D.
Guten Tag, here is your unroll: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1834617 Share this if you think it's interesting.
On DAY ONE, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all they could to throw our borders WIDE OPEN – and Sherrod Brown did NOTHING to stop them.
Now MILLIONS of illegals are flooding our nation. Take a stand against open borders and sign your name!
It’s never been about being legal or illegal. And even if it was, most Americans have no idea what a legal status is.
Decoding MAGA - on immigration: They say - Black immigrants should come legally (unsaid - & we intend there to be no legal way).
The anti-freedom brigade love to paint immigrants as a drain on the state. Back in the real world, immigrants pay more in tax than they receive back - subsidising the locals.
Find out about this and more in my book - "FREEDOM: The Case For Open Borders": amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CSX554Y4
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They do want legal immigration. But first they have to make all immigration and all immigrants illegal.
Can Springfield OH just sue them for damages spent by the town for defamation already?
If you listen to the language he uses, he clearly doesn't think he represents them.
To deflect from the catastrophic performance from their god/king in the debate
Well I presume those kind of people simply do not trust that information. Which is just another instance of the mistrust in experts. 1/2
On DAY ONE, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did all they could to throw our borders WIDE OPEN – and Sherrod Brown did NOTHING to stop them.
Now MILLIONS of illegals are flooding our nation. Take a stand against open borders and sign your name!
Don’t forget Ohio Lt Governor tweeted this about his own constituents
Most Springfield citizens don’t want them in their town
That’s enough for me
It's a feature of systemic racism, not a bug in an individual. Part of the reason they don't want CRT taught. It will be easier to strengthen their numbers if that's the norm in society.
Haitian is a proxy for black, and it is a desperate attempt to rally the maGa base whose main agglutinant is racism.
Can we just call it what it is and stop being cowards about it? They're racist. Just say it out loud. JD Vance is voting to enslave his wife. They're just racist.
Fox News is owned by (legal) immigrants. The difference is, they're white.
Hmmmm I wonder what it is that makes them still dislike these immigrants. What could it be? 
Vance is attacking *his own constituents* to whom he owes a moral and, surely, legal duty of care.
The Haitians aren't exactly the kind of immigrants the gop says they want. In 1 very specific way.
Anti-freedom folk like to argue that we're being "swamped" & "overrun" by immigrants.
This exert from my book - "FREEDOM: The Case For Open Borders" - shows that people are less likely to migrate today than 125 years ago.
To read more, grab a copy here: amazon.com/dp/B0CSX554Y4
Good thread, but this first claim is a bit off. TPS is to protect people who are here illegally from being deported to a country in crisis. Most of the Haitians probably came illegally, but can reside here & work legally until Haiti's TPS status is revoked.
If ever the MAGA ever turns on JD and goes after his Indian wife and his mixed race kids, I'd have zero sympathies.
It's what everyone thought Trump would do if he won in 2016, but now he's the one saying he's going to deport a bunch of people with no due process or guardrails and blame people for diseases.