It’s not their fault, they were told to come here, but the government needs to do more, a lot more."
Our Haitian associates come to work every day, they don’t have a drug problem, they’ll stay at their machine…they are here to work."
We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country,
Under the current federal policy, they're here legally and they're here and there's nothing that's taking them out right away, so as a community, we're trying to embrace them. I don't want to, like, be too Pollyannish about this—there is a culture clash."
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs—the people that came in,
I didn't think it would ever get past Springfield,
The people of Colorado...you have a governor there who is very weak, he doesn't know what to do,
Nobody’s eating cats, nobody’s eating dogs. We all just want to live and flourish.”
Some facts about immigrants. They usually do very well here. They are hardworking, they’re ambitious. They commit less crime than native-born Americans, and they will assimilate and integrate in time. But it takes time, so I think all of us need to have the same kind of grace that we would want our ancestors to have.”
Let's just love one another, ... Beautifully said! You were the first person I thought of when I saw Springfield Ohio!”
It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,
Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent,
I feel for the Haitian community,
I’m not a racist,
My neighbor told me one of her daughter’s friends had lost her cat,
Basically, these kinds of tropes have been used throughout history to reduce and degenerate immigrants,
Haitian immigrants are here legally, under the Immigration Parole Program."
It may be sarcasm to you, but tell that to the Haitian immigrants who are legally there, many of whom have been there for years, are working jobs that a lot of locals don't want, and are getting so much hate for a lie. Worst sign you've done."
In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false."
Do NOT take your pets to Springfield."