The anti-immigrant sentiment, one resident said, has already led to more fear and worry within the community.
Residents are saying that what Trump has said on a national platform doesn’t match up with reality for people who actually live in Aurora.
“They’re all now in the United States, and they’re now taking over cities. It’s like an invasion from within. And we’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we’re going to start with Springfield and Aurora,” Trump said at a news conference Friday.
Besides referencing Aurora, the presidential candidate promised to send newly-arriving immigrants from Venezuela back to their country of origin. He also made references to immigrants capturing and eating people’s pets in Ohio – a claim that has been widely criticized as untrue.
“In my opinion, I think it’s the same argument he was making in 2016, when he started his first campaign, that he was going to carry out …