Slurs against Haitian immigrants echo long history of racism in US
Recent false assertions by U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, that Haitian immigrants in Ohio have been stealing and eating household pets struck many Americans as bizarre. But such claims have a long, unpleasant history in American culture.
At least as far back as the 1800s, the racist trope that members of certain ethnic groups - especially newly arrived immigrants