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By Al Jazeera
Sep 14, 2024

Biden slams Trump for attacks on Haitian Americans: ‘This has to stop’

The US president called out his Republican rival for baselessly attacking Haitian residents in the city of Springfield, Ohio.

President Joe Biden has denounced election-season attacks on the Haitian American community in the United States, calling out Republican leaders for fear-mongering.

Speaking on Friday at a White House brunch billed as a “celebration of Black excellence”, Biden warned that Haitian Americans were a “community that’s under attack in our country right now”.

His remarks were a rebuke to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his vice presidential pick JD Vance, both of whom have spread unfounded rumours about Haitian migrants and asylum seekers in the US.

“It’s simply wrong. There’s no place in America” for that kind of rhetoric, Biden said, without naming Trump directly.