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Turmoil erupts in Pennsylvania town after Trump spreads false claims about Haitians there [View all]
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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️
Turmoil erupts in Pennsylvania town after Trump spreads false claims about Haitians there - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-haitians-pennsylvania-town/
Turmoil erupts in Pennsylvania town after Trump spreads false claims about Haitians there - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-haitians-pennsylvania-town/
Turmoil erupts in Pennsylvania town after Trump spreads false claims about Haitians there
Sarah K. Burris
September 16, 2024 3:56PM ET
For the last week, former President Donald Trump has been leveling false attacks against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio —and now, it appears a western Pennsylvania town could face the same crisis.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday that the city manager of the small town of Charleroi, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, has been complaining about the same types of xenophobic allegations.
In Charleroi, there are “people on Facebook saying that there’s a government-funded tent city in the Rite Aid parking lot, that there’s people walking down the street carrying live chickens," city manager Joe Manning told the Inquirer.
Trump put a spotlight on Washington County, Pennsylvania during a recent rally in Arizona on Thursday in which he said Charleroi and the surrounding area had seen a boom in the Haitian immigrant population that was costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in local taxes, and he suggested the town had been left “virtually bankrupt.”
Manning said none of it was true and that the crime rate had dropped recently, according to the Inquirer.
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Sarah K. Burris
September 16, 2024 3:56PM ET
For the last week, former President Donald Trump has been leveling false attacks against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio —and now, it appears a western Pennsylvania town could face the same crisis.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday that the city manager of the small town of Charleroi, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, has been complaining about the same types of xenophobic allegations.
In Charleroi, there are “people on Facebook saying that there’s a government-funded tent city in the Rite Aid parking lot, that there’s people walking down the street carrying live chickens," city manager Joe Manning told the Inquirer.
Trump put a spotlight on Washington County, Pennsylvania during a recent rally in Arizona on Thursday in which he said Charleroi and the surrounding area had seen a boom in the Haitian immigrant population that was costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in local taxes, and he suggested the town had been left “virtually bankrupt.”
Manning said none of it was true and that the crime rate had dropped recently, according to the Inquirer.
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It's clearly their adopted tactic now. The Springfield Crisis was not an campaign anomaly.
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