buddy of mine lives in aurora and he was complaining about the migrants too. The city took them in initially and offered stipends to accept migrants into housing but that money has dried up. The people got here desperate, the govt put them up for a bit, and now has absolved itself of them, leaving the citizens angry at the migrants who got sent there and are now without jobs to go to or places to stay.
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They didn’t know many people who had moved to the United States, but pictures and videos of Venezuelans on Facebook and TikTok showed young, smiling families in nice clothes standing in front of new cars boasting of beautiful new lives.
I'm not one to believe that foreign disinformation campaigns contribute as much as the media would like me to. I think that a lot of USA citizens truly are as terrible as they are and want fascism without being tricked by Russia. But this sure sounds like a disinfo campaign by a foreign power.
Just weeks after arriving in Denver, Herrera began to wonder if the success she had seen was real. She and her friends had developed another theory: The hype around the U.S. was part of some red de engaño, or network of deception.
Seems I'm not the only one.
In fact, former President Donald Trump last week called attention to the city, suggesting a Venezuelan gang had taken over an apartment complex. Authorities say that hasn’t happened.
Of course.
That sounds more like how people have always used social media (e.g. bragging about any accomplishments they can, hiding any difficulties they're going through, etc.) and how US based marketers have always used American Dream bullshit to pressure people into spending themselves into debt than any kind of coordinated foreign disinfo campaign to me
Beyond that, the fact that "people can come to the US and find prosperity and stability" is a lie seems to be the bigger underlying problem here
Hmm. You've convinced me.