President-elect Trump won on Nov. 5 after a campaign that demonized immigrants and promised mass deportations, and that has stoked fears among many in the immigrant community. If you want to help them, there’s quite a bit you can do, advocates said.
Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance last summer raised fears among Springfield’s Haitian community as they repeated false claims that they were stealing and eating their neighbors’ pets.
The claims and the resulting bomb and death threats terrorized Springfield’s Haitians, and those fears have only grown since the election, members of the community said. Now many are worried that Trump will send them back to a violence-torn home country that lacks a functioning government…