Weird how we had decades of blue collar workers put out of business, factories shut down, and manufacturing decimated across the Rust Belt and it was a footnote in American politics.
But fly 1,000 Haitian migrants in to replace the local populace and suddenly it's a tragedy when they lose their job?
This is what's happening in Charleroi, PA, which was a town that popped up during the election, along with Springfield Ohio, as a place where "temporary" migrants were being brought in to work factory jobs.
We covered Charleroi a couple of times during 2024:
Zerohedge didn't hold back in their reporting.
Many of these migrants were employed by a meatpacking plant known as Fourth Street Barbecue, also operating under the name Fourth Street Foods. They displaced native-born workers, drained local resources, and wired their paychecks overseas to third-world countries. The result: another small town gutted in real time by globalist policies for short-term profits.
Here's a clip from a rally in Charleroi:
Here's more from Zerohedge:
Now, the consequences of open-border policies and lax immigration policies that enabled migrants to be funneled into the small town could be set to unleash what some folks at the local level are calling a 'humanitarian disaster' in the making. This is because Fourth Street Barbecue is planning to shut down its plants at the end of the month after defaulting on more than $80 million in loans, according to local media outlet WTAE.
And from the WTAE story:
Local immigration attorney Joseph Murphy warned about the humanitarian disaster that's about to unfold in the small town:
'It's, among other things, just a plain old humanitarian disaster right here. Eight hundred families just like that, turned off, no legal status, no ability to work, thousands of miles from home in some foreign city in western Pennsylvania in February. This is just not a pretty picture.'
A bunch of unemployed Haitians in a tiny little town.
Can they head home? Conan O'Brien told me that Haiti is already great after all.
If you worked for this factory 15 years ago, and your family lived in Charleroi since 1920, you don't have any other home to go to.
Now that's a humanitarian crisis.
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