That could be given a pass if the stories were not complete lies and that the attention brought wasn't deeply damaging to the community it addressed.

It's a pity that it worked. A nation of immigrants is now virulently anti-immigrant.

Sadly, it’s nothing new. We’ve always welcomed some immigrants and hated others. The specific groups have just changed throughout the years.

Factcheck: conflating out of control illegal immigration with orderly legal immigration is dishonest and acting in bad faith.

The case in point was about legal immigrants accused of eating their neighbors pets and taking their jobs. Neither was true.

Your factcheck needs to be factchecked. Accusing me of being dishonest and acting in bad faith is a hoot. I may be ignorant of certain things but I'm only interested in the truth as I can best discover it.

I would love to have debate with someone from "your side", but you are, at best, a troll and haven't demonstrated any good faith.

I know this is not a new post at this point, but these claims are always wild to me from educated people. How on earth can you seriously believe that something is 100% not true, or debunked, when the claim could cover thousands of people in an environment over many months or years? Do you have video evidence of every second of every persons life over this timeframe that is indisputable? How can you possible know without a shadow of a doubt that this never happened? It's ludicrous.

What if you flipped the scenario and you heard of Americans living in India and locals claimed they have seen them killing and eating local cows? Would that just be incredibly unbelievable to you? Its just absurd to suggest that it just absolutely, 100% never happened, and everybody who has anecdotal evidence is just some racist idiot making stuff up.

And I know you won't believe me, but I actually live adjacent to one of the towns that received a large influx of Haitian migrants. Not Springfield, but a city that was also regularly mentioned on the news, and I saw evidence of the claims that were being spoken at those town halls myself. Our town literally had to put out city notices to ask people to refrain from shooting blow darts into the geese down at our local park, a place where the Haitians were known to loiter all day long for months on end, since they had nothing else to do or anywhere else to go. All of this shit was not just made up, I guarantee it. These were not all model citizens.

Now I am sure this is the part where you call me, a mixed race person who has a child with a minority mother, a racist.