Following bomb threats forcing evacuations of city hall, schools, and other buildings in Springfield, Ohio, President Joe Biden condemned the escalating violence. The threats are linked to inflammatory rhetoric surrounding immigration from both presidential candidates, with Pope Francis urging voters to choose “the lesser evil” amidst the heated debate.
with Vice President Kamala Harris, a bomb threat forced the evacuation of Springfield ’s city hall, schools and other buildings, prompting President Joe Biden to declare: “This has to stop.”Credit:Pope Francis also entered the campaign fray when asked to provide counsel to American Catholics on how to vote in the November 5 election.
However, at a press conference at his golf course in California, Trump – who has spent the past few days posting memes of cats and dogs on social media – said “the real threat is what’s happening at our border”.He claimed migrants were “taking over cities” and “it’s like an invasion from within”. He said he would start his deportation program in Springfield and Aurora.Aurora is a town in Colorado where a Venezuelan gang became a talking point during the debate.
But it Trump’s bizarre rant about pets being kidnapped and eaten that garnered the most attention, and has led to Springfield, home to a large Haitian community, being hit with threats of violence for two days in a row.On Thursday, two schools and the state motor vehicle agency’s local building were closed due to a bomb threat the Ohio mayor said was a “hateful response to immigration in our town”.
In this year’s presidential campaign, he has long promised to conduct the largest deportation operation in US history if he is re-elected, but this was the first time he said he would start the program in Springfield and Aurora.
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