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  "context": "PolitiFact records the statement as an Instagram post of September 9, 2024. A Springfield city spokesperson told the checker there are no credible reports of it happening, and the check notes that many Haitians in Springfield entered the United States under a federal humanitarian parole program.",
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  "notes": "P1-06, written after the coordinator's ruling 4 of 2026-09-19. The research archive records only fragments of this statement inside its own sentence, which is why the first pass left it out; the record here is built from PolitiFact's own page, fetched with curl on 2026-09-19 (HTTP 200). The said field is PolitiFact's statement card, verbatim, with his own quotation marks around illegal and around reportedly killing and eating pets. P2-09 (2026-09-19): the about list previously carried Kamala Harris and Sherrod Brown because the check's ruling section and the research archive record him naming them elsewhere, but the statement itself concerns Haitian immigrants in Springfield, not either opponent's record or position, so about is now empty; the claim still carries race for the 2024 U.S. Senate context.",
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