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Trump’s Haitian immigrant comments create a storm in Florida
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Sep 13, 2024 01:46pm |
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| News Date | Friday, September 13, 2024 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When a group of 50 Democrats of Caribbean descent gathered to watch the presidential debate in a South Florida suburb this week, the room filled with stunned laughs as former President Trump repeated a baseless rumor that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were stealing dogs and cats so they could eat them.
“How can this person be a candidate to be president?” asked Guithele Ruiz-Nicolas, past president of Haitian American Democratic Club of Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale.
The laughs quickly turned to anger, said Ruiz-Nicolas, who came to the United States with her parents as a child in the 1960s, and has seen new and shocking levels of bigotry directed at her people, who she said were long welcomed with open arms. |
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