I am ashamed to say it, but Trump’s claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets reminds me so much of the way Haitians are treated in my home country, the Dominican Republic.

After former president Donald Trump amplified unsubstantiated claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, the state’s bishops called for solidarity with ‘our Haitian brothers and sisters.’

Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has repeated -- without evidence -- claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless

In the debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Trump claimed without evidence that members of an Ohio city’s growing Haitian community were “eating cats; they’re eating dogs … they’re eating pets.”

The Diocese of Paterson, N.J., argues that the change “will cause severe and substantial disruption to the lives and religious freedoms” of the priests as well as the hundreds of thousands of Catholics they serve.