{"id":36197,"date":"2024-09-16T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=36197"},"modified":"2024-09-16T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:56:35","slug":"hitlerian-trump-vows-to-deport-haitians-legally-in-ohio-to-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/hitlerian-trump-vows-to-deport-haitians-legally-in-ohio-to-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hitlerian’: Trump Vows to Deport Haitians Legally in Ohio to Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks at a press conference at his Trump National Golf Course on Friday, September 13, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Christina House \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The lies and conspiracies about Haitians are part of a larger volume of anti-immigrant and dehumanizing rhetoric that actively courts political violence,” one immigrant rights advocate said.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

OLIVIA ROSANE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 14, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> escalated his attack on the Haitian immigrant community of Springfield, Ohio on Friday when he promised to begin his mass deportation plan there if elected president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations,” Trump told<\/a> reporters at his golf course near Los Angeles, California. “We’re going to get these people out. We’re bringing them back to Venezuela.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump’s remarks come despite the fact that most of the immigrants in Springfield are from Haiti and are in the country legally. Trump had previously pledged<\/a> to deport the 15 to 20 million people who he says are or will be in this country illegally by the time he takes office. Speaking on Friday, he repeated his vow to carry out<\/a> the “largest deportations in the history of our country,” starting in Springfield and Aurora, Colorado, where online rumors have exaggerated<\/a> isolated incidents of Venezuelan gang activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“This is Hitlerian rhetoric,” USA Today <\/em>columnist Rex Huppke wrote<\/a> on social media in response to Trump’s statement. “That’s not being hyperbolic. He’s dehumanizing legal immigrants, and for some reason saying he’ll deport Haitians to Venezuela. I’ve followed Trump since the beginning. He has devolved to his most base, hateful level, an often incoherent racist.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schools and city buildings in Springfield have received<\/a> bomb threats in recent days after Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance elevated unfounded online rumors that newly arrived Haitian immigrants in the city were stealing and eating pets. One journalist referred to the Trump campaign’s rhetoric as “blood libel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 12,000 to 15,000 Haitian immigrants have moved to Springfield in recent years, and the overwhelming majority are there legally with temporary protected status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The majority of Americans who reject this dark and dystopic vision and the lies courting violence should come together to denounce this outrageous spectacle of hatred and to chart a different direction for our nation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s essential to recognize the larger strategy on display from the Republican Party and their allies,” Vanessa C\u00e1rdenas, executive director of America’s Voice, said<\/a> in a statement Friday. “The lies and conspiracies about Haitians are part of a larger volume of anti-immigrant and dehumanizing rhetoric that actively courts political violence.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u00e1rdenas continued: “In addition to the lies about Haitians, which echo tropes like the antisemitic blood libel, Trump described this nation in increasingly violent and graphic terms… What’s the potential response from an unhinged supporter hearing those words and believing those threats? It is violence like the Haitian community is fearful of, and Jewish, Latino, and Black Americans have already experienced in places like Pittsburgh, El Paso, and Buffalo.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u00e1rdenas also referenced a promise Trump made last Saturday that his mass deportations would be “bloody.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The majority of Americans who reject this dark and dystopic vision and the lies courting violence should come together to denounce this outrageous spectacle of hatred and to chart a different direction for our nation,” C\u00e1rdenas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, an immigrant rights group in Colorado also spoke up against Trump’s deportation threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump’s fear mongering is as dangerous as it is dishonest,” Gladis Ibarra, the co-executive director of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement. “He doesn’t care about Aurora or Colorado. He’s using us as political pawns to push a racist agenda that paints our entire community in a bad light, and we won’t fall for it. Immigrants are our teachers, our neighbors, our parents, and our children. We will not let them be demonized or ripped from our communities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OLIVIA ROSANE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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