Caribbean-American legislators in New York on Tuesday strongly denounced what they described as an anti-immigrant disinformation marketing campaign surrounding Haitian migrants.
They’ve accused Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance of spreading “bogus reviews about Haitians, with absurd claims that ‘individuals have had their pets kidnapped and eaten by individuals who shouldn’t be on this nation.’”
“It’s actually sickening to see America’s strongest prey on its most susceptible by xenophobic, despicable disinformation,” Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, advised the Caribbean Media Company (CMC).
“Although even acknowledging these heinous, anti-immigrant rumours is beneath our frequent decency, sadly, billionaires and excessive conservatives, aided by their allies in far-right media areas, proceed to present life to those harmful, disproven lies.
“Their anti-immigrant prevarications will not be solely harmful and inflammatory, they play on bigoted stereotypes that search to isolate migrant households and foster hatred in direction of their communities,” added the consultant for the predominantly Caribbean ninth Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York.
“Haitian migrants who escaped nationwide repression don’t need to be slandered by racist fearmongers whereas searching for security in America.
“We every have a duty to reject these searching for to ignite tensions by sharing data they know to be false,” Clarke continued. “And we every have an ethical obligation to face for the reality, and stand with our Haitian American neighbours.”
Brooklyn Democratic Social gathering Chair, Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the primary Haitian-American to guide a serious social gathering in New York Metropolis, additionally advised CMC that, “The Trump Marketing campaign retains spreading disgusting and blatantly racist faux ‘information’ attacking immigrants, this time with VP contender JD Vance sharing absurd social media claims that Haitian immigrants are ‘abducting and consuming’ individuals’s pets.
“The Trump-Vance Marketing campaign repeatedly attempting to unfold hate and concern by portray Haitians and different immigrants as harmful criminals with racist tropes exhibits why we should preserve them out of workplace,” mentioned the daughter of Haitian immigrants, who represents the forty second Meeting District in Brooklyn. “Absurd on-line ‘reviews’ are being legitimised and weaponised by MAGA Republicans.
“Make no mistake: JD Vance is attempting to incite hatred from US residents in opposition to Haitians whereas advancing Trump’s inhumane mass deportation insurance policies,” she added.
“As one of many largest Democratic organisations within the nation, the Brooklyn Democratic Social gathering embraces our borough’s splendidly various communities. That’s why I proudly assist Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants, to change into our nation’s first lady, first Black lady, and first Asian American President, as she retains combating to defend immigrants.
“Trump and Vance are utilizing struggling immigrants as propaganda for racist rhetoric,” Bichotte Hermelyn continued. “Our nation is aware of higher: Haitians fashioned the world’s first Free Black Republic, and their revolution led to the US’s enlargement. They shed blood for our nation’s independence as troopers within the Battle of Savannah, whereas Jean Baptiste Level du Sable based Chicago, and, in the present day, Haitian immigrants function medical doctors, engineers, and myriad roles, making America higher.
“Let’s preserve America a beacon of freedom and hope on the poll containers,” she urged.
Haitian-born New York Metropolis Council Member Mercedes Narcisse additionally condemned the “dangerous anti-Haitian rhetoric”, saying “sufficient is sufficient.”
“As a proud Haitian immigrant, I’m deeply dissatisfied that our political discourse has sunk to such a low, as soon as once more concentrating on Haitians with baseless and dangerous lies,” mentioned the consultant for the forty sixth Council District in Brooklyn. “Our group has endured a lot, from overcoming social and political struggles to combating stereotypes which have induced actual hurt.
