By Michael Woyton
The convicted felon and others continue lying and fearmongering about immigration in advance of the November general election.
A Pennsylvania woman said she received a letter from a non-existent Pennsylvania Congressional Office of Immigrant Affairs that told her she’d been selected to house migrant refugees.
The fake government-mandated housing program, outlined in a somewhat official-looking letter, was blamed on fake legislation from the administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The woman who lives in Bala Cynwyd was told in the letter than she would have to take in five refugees who could be housed in a minimum of one bedroom outfitted with a minimum of five beds.
Semafor’s David Weigel printed a copy of the letter, which was designed to look official with a seal of the state of Pennsylvania — isn’t PA a commonwealth? — told the woman that she would be responsible for feeding the new family all meals for 21 days and at least one meal per day for the rest of their stay. Each family would be receiving an $80 weekly supply stipend.
In Weigel’s estimation, “it was somewhere between dirty trick, parody, and gibberish; it was also in harmony with the Trump campaign’s increased focus on refugees in small towns and cities, like Charleroi, a western Pennsylvania city where about 2,000 migrants and refugees have settled,” he wrote.
Charleroi’s borough manager Joe Manning rebuts Trump’s smears about the Haitians’ “invasion” of Pennsylvania by saying to the New Republic’s Greg Sargent that the Haitians were enticed to the town after a local employer couldn’t find workers.
And, of course, the smears are aimed at “them against us.”
Manning said that even now, with 700 to 800 Haitians in the town, the local employer is still looking for workers.
“They ain’t taking anybody’s jobs,” he told the New Republic.
Lead art: Screen grab from Google Maps.
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