Donald Trump made the claim during the presidential debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
Leaders in the US state of Ohio are trying to douse baseless rumours that Haitian immigrants in a town there have been eating residents' pets as food.
The allegations were repeated without evidence by Donald Trump at his presidential debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine made comments after a parent in the town slammed Republicans for using his son's death in an accident caused by a Haitian migrant in political messages.
Authorities say some 15,000 migrants of Haitian origin have resettled over the past couple of years in Springfield, a southwestern Ohio town with a population of less than 60,000 people.
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