Ohio sheriff deletes online post about Harris supporters and their yard signs after upset

After a public outcry and under threat of litigation, an Ohio sheriff has deleted a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses written down so that immigrants can be sent to live with them.

Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican running for reelection, took down a Facebook post that likened people in the country illegally to “human locusts” and said that Harris’ supporters should have their addresses noted so that when migrants need places to live, “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families… who supported their arrival!”

Zuchowski, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, waded into the immigration debate shortly after Trump and his GOP running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, spread unfounded rumors that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating household pets.

The sheriff’s comment about Harris’ supporters — made on his personal Facebook account and his campaign’s account — sparked outrage among some Democrats who took it as a threat. His supporters called that reaction overblown, arguing he was making a political point about unrestrained immigration and that he was exercising his right to free speech.

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