Latino immigrants eat cats and dogs claim false

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Oct 16 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday stood by debunked claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating pets, telling Latino voters during a town hall he was "just saying what was reported."

Trump doubles down on false stereotypes about immigrants eating pets in debate Immigration was always going to be part of Tuesday night’s presidential debate. More surprising was that the conversation veered into bizarre falsehoods about migrants eating pet dogs and cats.

Less than half an hour into Tuesday’s presidential debate, former president Donald Trump deployed an updated version of a century-old slur against immigrant communities: that newcomers are eating other people’s pets and vermin. “They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

“In Springfield they’re eating dogs,” the former president said, referring to an Ohio city dealing with an influx of Haitian immigrants. “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating … the pets of the people that live there.

For days, Donald Trump and his allies have zeroed in on Springfield, Ohio, amplifying baseless claims that Haitian immigrants there are eating others’ pets.

Cette «fake news» est relayée depuis quelques jours par des comptes républicains de droite radicale. Passer la publicité ... «À Springfield, ils mangent des chiens, les gens qui viennent (des migrants, NDLR), ils mangent des chats.

Lors du débat entre Kamala Harris ... recyclant une accusation mensongère du camp républicain. «À Springfield, ils mangent des chiens, ils mangent des chats....

Sous le regard hilare de son adversaire, le candidat républicain affirme, à propos des migrants : « A Springfield, ils mangent les chiens, ils mangent les chats, ils mangent les animaux domestiques des gens qui habitent là.

A 2010 study did find that Hispanics were more likely to own sexually intact dogs and cats as pets than were individuals of other race-ethnicity groups, while noting no significant difference between how non-Hispanic White and Hispanic owners viewed their pets.

Conviction data in Texas for the crimes of animal cruelty are obviously not data on Haitian migrant consumption of cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio. However, we don’t have data on criminal convictions by immigration status or country of origin in Springfield.

It was understood that immigration would be front and center during Tuesday night’s presidential debate. More surprising was that the conversation veered into bizarre falsehoods about migrants eating pet dogs and cats in Ohio.