There's a lot of reasons people have already mentioned, but I'll add this.

Your applying logic and reasoning to people who are illogical and unreasonable...

Fake news story about Haitian migrants eating people's cats and dogs. Fox news, JD Vance, and now Trump are going nuts over it

https://apnews.com/article/haitian-immigrants-vance-trump-ohio-6e4a47c52b23ae2c802d216369512ca5