The Story Behind ‘They’re Eating the Pets’

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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At this week’s presidential debate, Donald J. Trump went into an unprompted digression about immigrants eating people’s pets. While the claims were debunked, the topic was left unexplained. Miriam Jordan, who covers the impact of immigration policies for The Times, explains the story behind the shocking claims and the tragedy that gave rise to them. Guest: Miriam Jordan, a national immigration correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.
0:07.0	At this week's presidential debate, in Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating,
0:17.3	they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
0:22.1	Donald Trump went into an unprompted digression
0:25.7	about immigrants eating people's pets.
0:29.0	I just want to clarify here.
0:30.0	You bring up Springfield, Ohio, and ABC News did reach out to the city manager there.
0:34.8	He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being
0:38.7	harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.
0:43.1	While the claims were debunked,
0:45.0	the topic was left unexplained.
0:48.0	Today, my colleague Miriam Jordan
0:51.3	on the story behind those shocking and false claims and the town and the
0:57.2	tragedy that gave rise to them.
1:00.8	It's Friday, September 13th.
1:05.0	So Miriam, one of the standout moments in the debate on Tuesday was this kind of bizarre exchange where Donald Trump made a reference to a conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants.
1:17.0	He said that they had been eating people's pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio.
1:23.0	And a lot of people, I assume, had no idea what he was talking about.
1:28.0	But you knew exactly what he was referring to.
1:31.0	Tell us about that. Well yes, Donald Trump was talking about the
1:36.7	latest and perhaps strangest turn in this story that I've been covering in Springfield, Ohio, a mid-sized town in the southern part of the state.
1:48.0	It has to do with the Haitian immigrant community in that town and a controversy surrounding their arrival in large numbers.
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