Biden: Trump's verbal attacks against migrants must stop

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (dpa-AFX) – US President Joe Biden has called on his predecessor Donald Trump to stop his verbal attacks on migrants. “This has to stop,” said the Democrat at an event at the White House in Washington. The fact that Americans with Haitian roots are currently being attacked in this way is “simply wrong.” There is no place for this in America. “What he is doing has to stop.”

Republican presidential candidate Trump had accused migrants of eating pets. “In Springfield, they eat the dogs – the people who came here – they eat the cats. They eat the pets of the people who live there,” Trump said a few days ago during a TV debate against Democrat Kamala Harris in front of an audience of one million, without providing any evidence for the claim. Trump was referring to a statement made by his vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who had previously made the accusation that migrants from Haiti were stealing and eating pets in Springfield in his home state of Ohio.