A small Pennsylvania town has been thrown into a national conversation about immigration into the U.S, after former President Trump pointed to it as a victim of mass Haitian migration –with some residents saying they believe the town is now backing the former president in November.
“The small 4,000-person town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, have you heard of it?” Trump said in September in Tucson, Arizona. “What a beautiful name, but it’s not so beautiful now. It has experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.”
Charleroi, in Washington County, is a small town by the Monongahela River, that has seen a significant influx of immigrants — particularly from Haiti — in recent years. But the extent of that influx is disputed.