Haitians in blue-collar Springfield, Ohio, are not the only ones feeling threatened in the wake of false accusations that they are eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. Across town, people are anxious and worried about what's next.

The part-time rabbi at the only synagogue in Springfield, Ohio, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Haitian migrants are disenfranchising the town’s citizens, claiming that two members of his congregation had been “forced to move” out of an apartment complex and injured in a car accident because of the influx.