“Charleroi, Pennsylvania, “has grown by 2,000% due to an influx in migrants.”
What PolitiFact found
The small town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, has added up to 2,000 new immigrants in the last several years, largely from Haiti, to its population of 4,210, as of the 2020 census. That’s not a 2,000% population increase.
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In short
Dave McCormick (U.S. Senate candidate) made this claim around 13 September 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 October 2024, 19 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Dave McCormick has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- politifact.comhttps://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/sep/19/dave-mccormick/dave-mccormick-exaggerat…
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