'They’re here with lawful status,’’ Marshall said, “but it’s very different from the other programs that have brought people into the country.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks with members of the media outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall met Thursday with law enforcement officials in Talladega County to talk about their experience with the program that has brought Haitian immigrants to the area.
Under the Biden Administration, the program has been expanded to “blanketly allowing 30,000 people from four countries including Haiti to come in each month.” City officials estimate there are as many as 60 Haitians in the city. The 2023 Census puts Sylacauga’s total population at a little more than 12,000; about 64% of its residents are white.“It confirmed what I think we are learning is that sponsorship is fiction, that there is no support for those who are coming in, financially, helping find housing, helping find jobs, providing integration into the community,’’ Marshall said.
Marshall said he also wanted to find out if Alabama communities have seen any of the Venezuelan gangs that have been reported in other states, such as Texas and Colorado.Marshall said he doesn’t have a clear number of the migrants in the Sylacauga and said they are very much transient, which again is not the design of the CHNV program.He said Marshall County is uniquely impacted, maybe more so than any other Alabama community he’s heard of.
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