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But in the meantime, Adam, we thought we would do this news brief

because one of the campaigns for president currently

is inciting violence against immigrants in this

country more so than usual you know you would think that alone would be a

headline it's not but the you would be a headline.

It's not.

But the Pogram inciting anti-Hacian immigrant vile nonsense

that is being spread by the Trump campaign but also now really kind of led by vice presidential

candidate gross JD Vance and we've been talking about this a bit you and I Adam but this kind of ongoing blood libel

that is being waged through political speeches through rallies and also directly to the media is something that we wanted to comment on today.

Yeah, so there's a concerted effort by rightly media of all kinds taking their cues from the

Trump Vance ticket to incite, I don't think it's an

overstatement to say to incite pilgrims or to incite extra judicial or

visual anti-violence against Haitians, Haitian immigrants, which we've seen threats.

We've seen schools close, we've seen city council close, we've seen colleges close because of threats,

kind of focusing the higher and attention and anti-immigrant animus on the specific town of Springfield, Ohio, but obviously every Haitian American, every Haitian immigrant is subject to violence, frankly every black person is subject to violence because I don't think these guys are really making a huge very kind of

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