Brandon McGinley: In Charleroi, Haitian immigrants are succeeding where America has failed

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Posted on 09/27/2024 12:52:26 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

CHARLEROI, Pa. — I ran my fingers over the words etched in the cornerstone of this granite building, probably once a bank or an insurer or something similarly solid and impressive: CHARLEROI OFFICE.

Even more than the grander (and more dilapidated) neoclassical banks on the same block, this detail stuck with me from my visit this week. Charleroi was once the kind of place where an institution would open a satellite office and proudly carve it in granite, with the expectation it would be that kind of place forever.

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Mr. Zelinsky is adamant that he and his team have seen no increase in crime in the half-decade during which the town’s population has swelled by up to 50% due to immigration — largely from Haiti, but also from West African and Asian countries. In fact, the chief compares today’s situation favorably to a few years ago, when opioid-addicted “zombies” were more common.

Former Charleroi Mayor Nancy Ellis went further. She described Charleroi’s immigrants as model neighbors — more reliable, in fact, than the town’s long-time residents. They’re first in line to pay taxes, she said. As if on cue, while we chatted multiple Haitians dutifully showed up to pay parking fines.

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Another pro-immigration puff piece in which immigrants are viewed as superior to the "loser" American citizens who are complaining about them.

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