Reigning Cats and Dogs

“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats…They’re eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.” That was a claim then candidate Trump repeated about Springfield, Ohio during the 2024 campaign. Now that campaign hogwash has been replaced by the realities of policies that are driving Haitian workers out of Springfield. An Ohio City Faces a Future Without Haitian Workers: ‘It’s Not Going to Be Good.’ They weren’t eating the pets. They were reviving the economy.

+ Meanwhile, some Florida farmers reduce crops as deportation fears drive workers away. (Feel safer?)