{"__content__"=>"\n Abstract\n \n ", "p"=>{"__content__"=>"Operating at the intersection of sociology, criminology and cultural studies, this article analyses a statement made by President Trump on 10th September 2024, where he infamously claimed that migrants are eating pets, a statement which contributes to the construction of the crimmigrant other. A wide and eclectic range of theory is drawn together to contextualise and analyse this statement, primarily relating to the politics of eating, the social construction of migrants in the USA, and the moral status of pets in the USA. Through the analysis, Trump’s statement is decoded as representing migrants as non-grievable, non-human others. Pets, on the other hand, are constructed as the opposite – as grievable, and as human. These dynamics are ultimately grounded in colonial ideas of personhood and race. Pets become white, against the blackness of the crimmigrant other. Through all of this, the notion of a multi-species moral economy of personhood is proffered as a contribution to knowledge, primarily for understanding contemporary social constructions of crimmigrants."}}