Springfield, Ohio, has no monopoly on Haitian migrant troubles. Consider the situation of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a much smaller town in western Pennsylvania.
Whereas Springfield (pop. 58,662) has experienced about a 33 percent increase in its population due to the Haitian influx, Charleroi (pop. 4210) has suffered a breathtaking 2,000 percent rise. Not that state officials will admit it (if they follow the same line as Ohio’s), local residents are reporting on social media that the newcomers are “attacking people on the street and mugging them, stealing cars” and causing traffic accidents.
In addition, Charleroi’s schools are bursting at the seams with migrant children who know no English and many of whom have never attended school before in their lives. The school system is being forced to spend money that it doesn’t have for interpreters and additional teachers: $400,000 over the past year alone with at least another $300,000 next year. In addition, classroom space is running out with no money to build more schools.
Charleroi city councilman Larry Celaschi told activist group America-2100 in a telephone interview:
I wish I could come face-to-face for 60 seconds with . . . whoever was behind all this and bringing the immigrants in to Charleroi for only one reason — [to ask] where the hell’s the money that should be coming to Charleroi?
Why was it all dumped on us and we’re not being funded with anything, OK? And, again, we can’t even make ends meet with our budget. And so now, where are we gonna get this extra revenue to pay for them? And then we’ve got to do all these things to accommodate the immigrants. That’s bullshit.
A glowing article about the “refugees” (which they aren’t) published in the Washington (Pa.) Observer-Reporter in 2021 was titled “‘Life is easier here.'” Well, apparently not for everybody.
This is happening all over America. Don’t be surprised when it happens to your town.
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