Well as you just heard Donald Trump double down on unsupported claims that Haitian

immigrants are abducting and eating people's pets in the small city of Springfield,

Ohio. William Bringham recently visited Springfield where he spoke to city officials and members of the Haitian community there.

He joins us now.

When are good to say you?

Hi, I'm not.

So we heard Donald Trump there repeat those assertions to tens of millions of people who watch the debate

last night as you have been reporting there is no factual evidence for those claims so

what is actually happening in Springfield? Three weeks ago wonderful Fecto and I were in Springfield doing a story about

what is going on there and Springfield is like a lot of Midwestern Rust Belt cities

it had a declining population for a long time, but in recent

years they have had an influx of Haitians moving to that community. This is part of the

wave of people that are fleeing the violence in Haiti.

Tens of thousands of people have left that country as it has fallen into chaos.

And about 12 to 15,000 of them have ended up in Springfield, Ohio.

And they're here legally under the temporary protected status program, but their

arrival in this community has been rocky, to say the least. There was an accident that killed

a young boy last year.

But in addition, if you just grow a city's population by 20% in just a few years,

that causes strains. We talked to the mayor about this Rob Rue.

Here's what he had to say.

The infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools.

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