Trump/Vance campaign lies lead to personal threats against lifelong Republican.
“The owner of McGregor Metal can take a bullet to the skull and that would be 100 percent justified,” said one message left on the company voice mail.”
They came by the hundreds — phone calls, emails and letters from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other people they had never met.
Mr. McGregor’s children and his 80-year-old mother began receiving hateful calls.
‘Vary your driving routes to work, school and other places,’ security experts advised. ‘Don gloves and use tongs when handling and opening mail. Keep the blinds drawn at your house.’
For Jamie McGregor, a businessman in Springfield, Ohio, speaking favorably about the Haitian immigrants he employs has come to this: death threats, a lockdown at his company and posters around town branding him a traitor for hiring immigrants.
Mr. McGregor said he had spoken out hoping to show that the Haitian workers had helped his company grow. He said the newcomers have helped revitalize the blue-collar town and reverse its population decline.
A fifth-generation resident in the small city between Columbus and Dayton, Mr. McGregor was struggling a few years ago to fill positions for machine operators, forklift drivers and quality inspectors. Mr. McGregor, 48, began hiring Haitians who had recently settled in Springfield. They now represent about 10 percent of McGregor Metal’s labor force of 330.
“They come to work every day. They don’t cause drama. They’re on time,” he told The New York Times in an interview in early September that helped trigger the backlash. On PBS News Hour the next week, he noted that they were drug-free. “I wish I had 30 more,” he said.
To defend himself and his family, Mr. McGregor has had to violate his own vow to never own a gun.
“I have struggled with the fact that now we’re going to have firearms in our house — like, what the hell?” said Mr. McGregor,
“We’re being hunted like animals,” Mr. McGregor’s wife, Cameron, said.
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