It’s too early to say whether Trump’s promise of deporting Haitians, including those with protected status in Charleroi, will play out.
PHILADELPHIA — Augusta “Queen” Goll, a Liberian immigrant and the owner of Queen’s Market in Charleroi , Pa., felt her excitement aboutAs his lies continued to sting for weeks, Goll, a Republican, decided she would vote across the aisle for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I leave it to God,” she said. “As of now, there’s nothing I can do. I know for sure there’s a higher percentage in my heart that Trump means very well for the country.”will play out. But in the meantime, Charleroi is still feeling the impacts of his remarks about its immigrant community, as well as the KKK flier and white supremacist stickers that followed.
Luciano Janvier, 41, a graduate student at PennWest University, was focused on his schoolwork at home that morning. “People don’t know if one day they’re going to turn on you, start fighting you, the civil war type stuff,” he added. Bernabe, Janvier, and other local Haitian leaders have advised members of their community to keep a low profile in hopes of winding down tensions. Many people in the Haitian community remain worried about their futures in Charleroi — and in the United States as a whole. But they also say there isn’t much they can do other than watch and wait, Bernabe said.
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