The Trump campaign strategy to demonize Haitian immigrants

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, we're looking into the endgame of the racist and false rumors targeting Haitian immigrants. Are the lies being told about migrants across the country part of a strategy to land a bigger lie: that undocumented immigrants could steal the election?

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0:00.0	J.D. Vance and Tim Walls had their first and only debate on Tuesday. What happened?
0:06.4	The NPR Politics Podcast has you covered with all the news and analysis from the Vice Presidential
0:11.4	debate. Listen to the NPR Politics Podcast wherever you get your podcast.
0:20.0	Hids up, there's going to be some salty language.
0:24.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch.
0:28.0	I'm B.A. Parker.
0:30.0	And I'm Gene Demby.
0:32.0	And today we're talking about one of the most
0:35.8	unfortunate news cycles we've been plagued within a while.
0:41.2	That's same a lot, poker, because you know what know I mean when was the last time there was a steady stream of good news. You know what I'm saying?
0:47.0	The news has been pretty bleak for a while now.
0:50.0	Very true, Gene. But this really takes the cake for me.
0:54.4	They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, eat the cat,
0:57.8	eat the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats,
1:01.7	eat the cats.
1:01.8	Ah, yeah. Okay, so this very disturbing viral tic-toc song that you're hearing right now is obviously
1:08.6	making use of Donald Trump talking about the unfounded debunked and yet somehow still
1:15.0	incessant rumors that Haitian immigrants were you know I mean eating people's
1:19.5	pets in Springfield Ohio is very specific.
1:23.0	These rumors started on Facebook.
1:25.4	As they tend to do these days.
1:27.8	And Jean, on the one hand,
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