People watch as Springfield Police Department officers investigate the Springfield City Hall after bomb threats were made against buildings earlier in the day in Springfield, Ohio, on Sept. 12, 2024. Roberto Schmidt | AFP | Getty Images Ohio state police will conduct daily sweeps of schools in Springfield after authorities have been forced to investigate … Read more
McALLEN, Texas — For three days, the staff of an Orlando medical clinic encouraged a woman with abdominal pain who called the triage line to go to the hospital. She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether a patient was in the U.S. with legal permission. The clinic had … Read more
Canada and the U.S. must work together to confront a surge of migrant encounters at their shared border, one expert says, particularly after a man was arrested in Quebec for planning to commit a terrorist attack in New York City. Keith Cozine, an associate professor of homeland security at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., says … Read more
Former President Donald Trump turned down an opportunity to denounce the bomb threats that have hit Springfield, Ohio just days after amplifying a racist lie involving Haitian immigrants in the community. “I don’t know what happened with the bomb threats,” the GOP nominee told reporters in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday. He continued, “I know … Read more
Scott Jennings, a conservative commentator for CNN, is facing harsh criticism over his response to remarks from former President Donald Trump, who repeated a racist lie about Haitian immigrants during Tuesday’s presidential debate. During an appearance on a segment of “NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” Republican commentator Ana Navarro asked Jennings whether he thought Trump sharing … Read more
Five years ago, Kris Kobach, Kansas’ former secretary of state, announced on Fox Business Network that, in order to quickly deport undocumented immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, the Trump administration would need “camps.” Or, as he also put it, “processing towns.” The U.S. government owns “thousands of empty mobile home trailers,” Kobach told … Read more
Rob Rue, the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, rejected racist claims spread by former President Donald Trump this week that migrants were eating residents’ pets, saying such rhetoric was hurting citizens and hurting the community. “Springfield is still beautiful, and your pets are safe in Springfield, Ohio,” Rue told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday. “Safe.” “There’s … Read more
While bomb threats forced elementary and middle schools in Springfield, Ohio, to evacuate Friday for a second day, the state’s attorney general was amplifying the conspiracy theory that likely prompted those bomb threats in the first place. Despite lacking any firm evidence, and in the face of clear denials from city officials, Ohio Attorney General … Read more
On Friday morning, at least three schools in Springfield, Ohio — a city at the center of racist fearmongering about Haitian immigrants — were hit with a bomb threat, forcing two to evacuate and one to close. This came just one day after Springfield City Hall was evacuated due to a bomb threat from someone … Read more
An outreach organization that supports asylum seekers and immigrants in Alberta believes the systems helping all newcomers need to be modernized in order to better support those coming to Canada. “I think the issue has always been, from time immemorial, that we don’t have our levels of government necessarily speaking to each other when it … Read more
