Charleroi, Penn. Residents Describe How the Town Became Overwhelmed by Thousands of Haitian Immigrants

EXCERPT:

UNKNOWN 1: “America doesn’t need this place, doesn’t care about this place. It’s just — it’s a place that time forgot.”

UNKNOWN 2: “Yeah, this used to be just a nice, blue collar, middle-of-nowhere town.”

UNKNOWN 3: “In the early ‘80s, the steel industry started to collapse. The place became less useful for people. The population left in droves.”