Greg Sargent: At bottom, Vance's whole purpose of running with the grotesque pet-eating lie has not been to draw attention to the story of Springfield, but to rewrite it.
One day Nasrudin and his friends decided to play a joke on the people in a village. So Nasrudin drew a crowd, and lied to them about a gold mine in a certain place. When everybody ran to get their hands on the gold, Nasrudin started running with them. When asked by his friends why he was following them, he said "So many people believed it, that I think it may be true!"
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Vance Says He Will Keep Calling Haitians Legally in Springfield Illegal'
The immigrants are mainly in the United States under temporary protected status, which the executive branch can grant to people whose home countries are in crisis.
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Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said on Wednesday that he would continue to describe Haitian residents in Springfield, Ohio, as "illegal aliens" even though most of them are in the country legally.
The immigrants are mainly in the United States under a program called temporary protected status, which the executive branch can grant to people whose home countries are in crisis. Mr. Vance claimed falsely that this program was illegal.
"If Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally, I'm still going to call them an illegal alien," he said in response to a reporter's question after a rally in Raleigh, N.C. "An illegal action from Kamala Harris does not make an alien legal."
Congress created the temporary protected status program in 1990 and presidents from both major parties have used it in response to wars, natural disasters and other humanitarian crises in various countries. The program allows people from countries designated by the Department of Homeland Security to live and work legally in the United States for 18 months, a period that the department can renew indefinitely. It does not include a path to permanent residency or citizenship.
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