The city's mayor has asked Trump and other candidates to stay away as the city's resources remain stretched due to bomb threats.

Locals say they are facing serious issues with housing, jobs and harassment, even though pet-eating rumours are false.

Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue said a visit from Donald Trump, who spread false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets there, would "strain" resources.

According to the city manager in Springfield, Ohio, JD Vance knew the truth about Haitian immigrants. The senator and Donald Trump kept lying anyway.

"It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen," Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.

Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance’s staff was told by Springfield officials that a racially charged rumor Vance had been amplifying was false, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Despite a wave of death and bomb threats directed at the community,

Vice President Kamala Harris discussed President Trump's claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating cats, dogs, and geese from the park during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday.

"It's got to stop," the vice president said of verbal attacks on Haitian migrants in the Ohio city that has been targeted with bomb threats in recent days.