Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance is escalating his racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric, this time targeting the Haitian community in his home state of Ohio. On Monday, Vance wrote on the social media site X, “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?” The Trump campaign piled on to the bizarre right-wing misinformation campaign, writing, “President Trump will deport migrants who eat pets.”

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