ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Allentown police are investigating a series of racist flyers distributed near Dieruff High School.<\/p>\n
The flyer is titled “September 30th: The Day of Reclamation.” It addresses Allentown residents and claims \u2014 without providing sources \u2014 that 1 in 10 people in the city is undocumented.<\/p>\n
The flyer is unidentified but does have a symbol of the Christian cross, and said “paid for by the OSM.” 69 News has not verified what that means.<\/p>\n
The flyer also has the number for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security. It says it wants to “take back your city.”<\/p>\n
Sheila Alvarado loves the sense of community her Roosevelt Park neighborhood provides. However, the Puerto Rican native and Lehigh County commissioner is one of those targeted in a flyer distributed near Dieruff High School.<\/p>\n
The flyer says “September 30th: The Day of Reclamation,” and invokes the American flag being “replaced” by the Puerto Rican flag and English becoming a second language in schools. It also describes undocumented immigrants as responsible for trash, crime, rising rents, pressure on public benefits and lower wages.<\/p>\n
“If they feel so upset with the people that live in this community, maybe it’s time for them to move. You know, we have embraced this community,” Alvarado says.<\/p>\n
The flyer also says September 30th is when people should report suspected undocumented immigrants to DHS\/ICE, to “take back your city.”<\/p>\n
With 54% of Allentown’s population being Latino, Mayor Matt Tuerk, who makes no secret of his Latino roots, isn’t sure who the flyer represents.<\/p>\n
“Allentown is a city of Allentonians. So the people who live here in Allentown, the people who are contributing to our civic life, that’s whose city this is,” he says.<\/p>\n
Tuerk says the flyers were found near Dieruff High School. He’s not sure how many were placed.<\/p>\n
Allentown police say they are investigating to see if a crime was committed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Allentown police are investigating a series of racist flyers distributed near Dieruff High School. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-289057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}