In Springfield, Ohio, Haitian residents confront fallout of Trump’s false claims

Many cities have been reshaped by immigrants in the last few years without attracting much notice. Not Springfield, Ohio. Its story of economic renewal and related growing pains has been thrust into the national conversation in a presidential election year – and maliciously distorted by false rumors that Haitian immigrants are eating their neighbors’ pets. Donald Trump amplified those lies during a nationally televised debate on Sept. 10, exacerbating some residents’ fears about growing divisiveness in the predominantly white, blue-collar city of about 60,000. At the city’s Haitian Community Help...