Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican who backs Trump, likens people in the U.S. illegally to “human locusts.”

Nearly a week after a local sheriff's social media post sparked controversy online, some residents spoke out against his comments on Thursday.

The attention on Springfield then became amplified again when the Republican vice presidential candidate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, took to X to claim that people in the city have had their “pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”

An Ohio sheriff is under fire for a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if Harris wins.

Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski of Portage County used anti-immigrant rhetoric and denounced both the vice president and her supporters in a public Facebook post.

Ohio sheriff Bruce Zuchowski is facing criticism after posting disparaging comments about Vice President Kamala Harris on social media. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Zuchowski, with the Portage County Sheriff’s Office,

An Ohio sheriff used his public Facebook accounts to attack Vice President Kamala Harris, urging residents to write down the addresses of her supporters.