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Charleroi Councilman Tells House Panel Migrant Placements Strained Small Town Services
Summary
Larry Solasci, councilman of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, told a House subcommittee that rapid placements of migrants since 2022 overwhelmed municipal services, adding ambulance debt and overcrowded housing, and asked Congress to require consultation and funding for localities.
Larry Solasci, a councilman in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, told the House Judiciary subcommittee that his borough absorbed an "estimated 2,000 to 3,000 migrants in a very short period of time," a change he said represented a 50% to 75% population increase that local officials were not consulted about.
"No community can observe that level of growth overnight without serious consequences," Solasci said, describing stretched police, volunteer fire and ambulance services, overcrowded…
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