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Stephen Starr in Springfield, Ohio

Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up

A mural adorns a wall in the city of Springfield
A mural adorns a wall in the city of Springfield, Ohio, on 11 September 2024. Photograph: Julio-Cesar Chavez/Reuters

While Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed.

He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock.

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