Democracy Now! | Walz Decries Demonizing Immigrants After Trump & Vance Spread Lies About Haitians in Springfield, OH @DemocracyNow | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
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Tuesday's vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance focused heavily on immigration policy. Walz promoted the asylum restrictions of the Biden administration and touted his running mate Kamala Harris's bill to further militarize the southern U.S. border. Vance, meanwhile, continued Donald Trump's demonization of immigrants, including the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, that they falsely accused of eating people's pets. We get reaction from Guerline Jozef, the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, which filed criminal charges against the Republican ticket over those lies. "We cannot allow this to continue," Jozef says of the anti-immigrant rhetoric.

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