Visceral rhetoric over Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, has underscored just how much the GOP has evolved away from "compassionate conservatism" on immigration.

“People are making all sorts of suggestions like somehow this is a conspiracy run by the United Nations or the World Economic Forum, and saying things like this will create 15-minute cities where you’ll have to show ID to leave your neighbourhood, and that they’re going to expropriate people’s land,” he said.