By Eugene Kiely
Former President Donald Trump created a stir when he made the baseless claim in a Sept. 10 presidential debate that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are “eating the pets” of their new neighbors — repeating a rumor that his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, circulated on social media one day earlier.
Now, Vance has cherry-picked data to make the unfounded claim that immigrants are responsible for an 81 percent increase in the city’s murders.
