Racial Targeting: Haitians
2018
2018-01-11 Trump called Haiti, El Salvador, and certain African nations “shithole” countries and complained that the US didn’t receive more immigrants from what he considered better countries like Norway. Trump also claimed Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS” during an Oval Office meeting.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/donald-trump-shithole-countries-phrase
https://abc7.com/post/haitian-migrants-donald-trump-former-president-immigration/11108741/
https://x.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/951586161931235328
2024 September
2024-09-09 Trump reposted a tweet from JD Vance, “Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country. Where is our border czar?”. Trump added “Border Czar Kamala Harris invited thousands of Haitian Migrants to flood into America and now a small town in Ohio is being torn apart because of what Kamala did”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/10/jd-vance-false-conspiracy-haitian-immigrants-john-kirby.html
2024-09-09 Ted Cruz posted a meme of two cats hugging, captioned “Please vote for Trump so Haitian immigrants don’t eat us”.
https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1833174142591365185
2024-09-10 JD Vance posted on Truth Social “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”.
2024-09-10 Trump falsely accused Haitian immigrants of eating pets during a debate and denied involvement with Project 2025.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77l28myezko
2024-09-11 JD Vance defended spreading Springfield pet rumors on CNN, “When you have a lot of people saying ‘My pets are being abducted’ or ‘Geese at the city pond are being abducted and slaughtered right in front of us’, this is crazy stuff. And again, whether those exact rumors turn out to be mostly true, somewhat true, whatever the case may be – Kaitlan, this town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in. Health care costs are up. Housing costs are up. Communicable diseases like HIV and TB have skyrocketed in this small Ohio town. This is what Kamala Harris’s border policies have done. And I think it’s interesting, Kaitlan, that, that the media didn’t care about the carnage brought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-09-12 After Trump and Vance spread pet-eating claims, Springfield residents faced extensive bomb threats against county, school, and hospital facilities.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5132366/president-trump-dismisses-question-springfield-bomb-threats
2025 November
2025-11-26 The Trump Administration ended Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yxn7kqww8o
https://www.ncronline.org/news/judge-stops-noem-ending-haitians-protected-status-fear-ice-remains
2026 February
2026-02-09 Bomb threats that said Haitian immigrants should be gone from Springfield were sent to several Clark County offices after Vance, Trump and Cruz perpetuated claims of migrants eating pets.
2026 March
2026-03-02 Haitian asylum seeker Daphy Michel’s body was found in a Pittsburg bus stop where ICE had left her. Allegheny County Medical Examiners wrote, “The opinion of the forensic pathologist in this case is that Ms. Michel was a vulnerable adult, suffering from untreated severe mental health issues and a significant language barrier when she was released from federal custody on Federal 27.” It was deemed a homicide in June.
TIMESTAMP 4:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EL6rRBfTx8&list=WL&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u24qQPsQ9c
https://www.wtae.com/article/daphy-michel-haitian-asylum-seeker-death-ruled-homicide/71573343