r/PublicFreakout • u/Fuck_The_Future_ • 6d ago

Trump double-downs on Haitian's again today in Arizona. They are taking geese. 🪿 geese here illegally from Canada 😡

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u/FblthpLives 6d ago

  1. The Haitian immigrants in Springfield are not in any way illegal. Haiti is designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) through 2026. The immigrants in question are in the U.S. legally under TPS.

  2. The killing ducks claim is based on a video clip of one single person claiming that Haitian immigrants are killing ducks in parks. That's it. He doesn't even say that this is something that he has witnessed. He claims without any evidence whatsoever that this is happening.

  3. This video clip was dug up by MAGA cultists only *after it became clear that Trump's statement about cats and dogs being kept as pets was completely bogus. That claim was, in turn, based on a video of a woman purporting to be eating a cat. The only problem is that the video in question turned out to be from an entirely different city, Canton, and that Canton police verified that she was a native-born U.S. citizen with no connection whatsoever to Haiti or any other foreign country.

Very simply put, this is racist fearmongering with no basis in reality that is intended to rile up Trump's base of MAGA cultist. I have bad news for MAGA: It's transparent, it's infantile, and all it will accomplish is to ensure that Trump will lose yet another election.