Trump-Vance cruel racist lies risk backlash as word spreads of real human consequences

>>> ILLEGAL HAITIAN MIGRANTS, TAKING OVER A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. MIGRANTS ARE WALKING OFF WITH YOUR TOWN'S GEESE. THEY ARE TAKING THE GAZE. EVEN WALKING OFF WITH THEIR PETS. MY DOG HAS BEEN TAKEN. >> IF WE HAVE TWO MEME ABOUT IT TO GET THE MEDIA TO CARE, WE WILL KEEP DOING IT. >> ALL WEEK THEY HAVE ENGAGED IN JOYFUL BIGOTRY, PUSHING THE LIE THAT HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO ARE EATING CATS, DOGS AND GEESE. THEY'VE SPENT THE WEEK ON IT. RIGHT WING PROVOCATEURS ARE HUNTING FOR PROOF AND OFFERING A $5000 BOUNTY FOR EVIDENCE OF HAITIAN CAT CONSUMPTION. BUT THIS RACISM IS CAUSING REAL HARM, AS RACISM OFTEN DOES. TODAY THE SPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED BOMB THREATS TO MULTIPLE BUILDINGS, PROMPTING EVACUATIONS AND CLOSURES OF CITY AND SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND MANY HAITIANS IN SPRINGFIELD SAY THEY NOW FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES. JOINING ME NOW IS YAMICHE ALCINDOR, NBC NEWS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT WHO IS JUST NOW BACK FROM SPRINGFIELD WHERE SHE SPOKE TO HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS ABOUT THE LIES REPUBLICANS ARE SPREADING ABOUT THEM. THANKS FOR JOINING ME. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO YOU? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS? >> HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS ARE HEARTBROKEN AND SHOCKED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON. I TALKED TO ONE HAITIAN MAN WHO IMMIGRATED A FEW MONTHS AGO. HE WAS TOO SCARED TO GO ON CAMERA BUT TOLD ME HE IS FEELING RE-TRAUMATIZED BECAUSE HE LEFT HAITI FLEEING GANG VIOLENCE AND INSECURITY. HE DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE, BUT HE FELT LIKE HE HAD TO AND THEN HE CAME LEGALLY TO SPRINGVILLE, OHIO AND IS WORKING CONSTRUCTION JOBS. HIS COWORKERS REPEATEDLY ASKED HIM IF HE EATS CATS AND HE TOLD ME HE FEELS SO SAD ABOUT THIS SITUATION AND HE HAS SOME FRIENDS THAT ARE TELLING HIM THEY MIGHT LEAVE SPRINGFIELD AND LEAVE THE IDEA OF THE AMERICAN DREAM THAT THEY WERE HOPING TO LIVE THERE, SO IT IS IN SOME WAYS VERY HEARTBREAKING AND A TOUGH SITUATION. THE TENSION WAS SO PALPABLE, ALEX. >> DID THEY HAVE A RESPONSE TO TRUMP WHO IS ON THIS, CONTINUES TO DO IT LIKE HOURS AGO AND KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THIS DESPITE THERE IS NO BASIS IN TRUTH? DID THEY HAVE WORDS FOR DONALD TRUMP? >> YES A NUMBER OF HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS TOLD ME THEY SEE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AS WELL AS SENATOR J.D. VANCE PUSHING RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC LANGUAGE TOWARDS THEM. UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS. THEY SEE THEM PUTTING THEIR LIVES AT RISK WITH SOME PEOPLE NOT WANTING TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSES. ONE WOMAN KEPT THEIR CHILDREN HOME FROM SCHOOL BECAUSE SHE WAS WORRIED THAT THEY MAY BE TARGETED. THEY SEE THEM REALLY IS PEOPLE TRYING TO DO HARM TO HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS. ONE PERSON TOLD ME THEY SEE THEM AS THE CONTINUATION OF A LONG LINE OF ATTACKS BECAUSE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP YEARS AGO SAID HAITIANS WERE BRINGING HIV TO THIS COUNTRY WHICH IS A FALSE CLAIM. THEY REALLY SEE THIS AS HIM CONTINUING TO BEAT DOWN HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS AND OF COURSE HE HAS DONE THAT, THEY THINK, FOR A NUMBER OF OTHER IMMIGRANTS. HE HAS CALLED MEXICANS CRIMINALS, SO THERE MAY ALSO BE A LITICAL CALCULATION HERE. HE MIGHT BE TRYING TO GET OTHER PEOPLE IN OHIO TO BELIEVE THIS SO THEY WILL THEN BE MOTIVATED TO GO TO THE POLLS. I SPOKE TO ONE MAN WHO SAW THE CLAIMS AS CREDIBLE AND HE TOLD ME HE FEELS LIKE SPRINGFIELD WILL BE LOST BECAUSE IT WILL BE OVERRUN IN HIS MIND WITH HAITIANS AND SOME SAY MAYBE IT WILL BE A HAITIAN COMMUNITY LIKE THERE ARE OTHER COMMUNITIES, IRISH COMMUNITIES, GERMAN COMMUNITIES, BUT HE SAYS HE IS HOPING OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE WATCHING AND THEY STOP HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS AND OTHER IMMIGRANTS FROM COMING TO THEIR TOWN. THERE IS THE IDEA THAT THEY FEEL MOBILIZED BY THESE BASELESS CLAIMS THAT HELP DONALD TRUMP BE ELECTED. >> I WOULD ASSUME JUST FROM SOME OF THE VIDEOS THAT I'VE SEEN THAT THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE HAITIANS IS INCENSED ALSO ABOUT THE LIES THAT ARE BEING SPREAD ABOUT SPRINGFIELD. DID YOU GET A SENSE OF THAT WHILE YOU ARE THERE? >> I GOT A VERY CLEAR SENSE OF THAT. I TALKED TO A NUMBER OF LONGTIME RESIDENTS OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, WHO SAY THEY WERE WELCOMING HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS. THEY WERE COMING THERE LEGALLY THROUGH TPS AND A NUMBER OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS TARGETING IMMIGRANTS FLEEING VIOLENCE AND INSECURITY, BUT ALSO SPRINGFIELD FOR YEARS WAS LOSING ITS POPULATION AND BUSINESSES WERE CLOSING, GROCERY STORES WERE CLOSING AND NOW THEY HAVE SEEN A REVITALIZATION AND PEOPLE WHO WANT THE IMMIGRANTS THERE SAY THAT IS PART OF THE REASON THEY WANTED THAT AND THE CITY I SHOULD NOTE HAS ADVERTISED NEW MANUFACTURING JOBS AND ADVERTISED SPRINGFIELD AS AN AFFORDABLE PLACE TO LIVE, WHICH IS WHY THEY WERE WELCOMING IMMIGRANTS. THEY WERE ENTICED TO COME THERE. THEY ARE ALSO CONFUSED BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT PETS AND ABUSE, IT ALL SEEMS TO HAVE STARTED BECAUSE OF AN UNRELATED CASE IN A DIFFERENT PART OF OHIO INVOLVING A U.S. CITIZEN WHO WAS ARRESTED OVER A GRUESOME INCIDENT, BUT THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, AND NOTHING TO DO WITH HAITIANS AS WELL. >> AND THEY GLEEFULLY CONTINUED TO SPREAD THE LIES. YAMICHE ALCINDOR, THANKS FOR THAT REPORTING. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT