Reuters, AFP and Prensa Latina
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 14, 2024, p. 23
Washington. US President Joe Biden said yesterday that the attacks against Haitian migrants They have to stopafter Donald Trump reproduced a false and derogatory claim about a Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, that supposedly ate dogs and cats.
It is simply wrong that the proud Haitian community is being attacked right now in this country. There is no place for this in the United States. They need to stop what they are doing.Biden said.
At a White House event celebrating the achievements of the black community, Biden singled out his White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, as a proud Haitian-American.
Haitian community leaders across the United States said the Republican candidate’s remarks could endanger lives and further exacerbate tensions in the town where thousands of recently arrived Haitians are driving the local economy and straining the social safety net.
Last Tuesday, during the presidential debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the former president spoke about this issue and also reiterated his comments about migrants arriving in the United States. He also said that Millions of people arrive in our country from prisons and jails, from psychiatric institutions and mental hospitals..
Meanwhile, her rival, Democrat Kamala Harris, discussed, among other issues, the right to abortion that she supports, the AFP news agency reported.
Springfield city officials say they have received no credible reports of anyone eating domestic animals.
Karen Graves, a spokeswoman for the city, said she was not aware of any recent hate crimes against Haitian residents, but that some were victims of crimes of opportunitysuch as theft of property.
Barbaric criminals, murderers and terroristswere the expressions of Trump, who redoubled his attacks against undocumented immigrants, while accusing without evidence his Democratic rival Kamala Harris of wanting to transform the United States into a refugee campin an increasingly tense campaign for the White House.
The Republican presidential candidate said during a press conference from his golf resort in the suburbs of Los Angeles that American children are at the mercy of criminalsthe tycoon even promised yesterday mass deportations of Haitians without residence permits.
Pope Francis, who concluded his 12-day tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania, yesterday accused the US presidential candidates, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, of being against life.
I am not from the United States, I will not vote there. But let’s be clear: both not giving migrants the opportunity to work and not welcoming them is a sin, it is serious.the pontiff stressed.