NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor in Springfield, Ohio: One Man Told Me There Were Stray Cats Missing

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ALCINDOR: “But now there are some residents who say that they really don’t like the change. There is — I talked to one man who said that he doesn’t like the cultural changes. He doesn’t like the idea that there are people here that are changing the racial makeup of this city, saying that the city is sort of lost. He also said that there were, in his mind, claims that there were stray cats missing and sort of had this idea that maybe Haitians were abusing animals. Of course, city officials have said there’s no evidence of that. And Haitian migrants, there are people who are fleeing violence, gang violence in their country. So they were already traumatized when they got here.”