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Santa Claus is an undocumented immigrant worker

18:48 H | Topics: Controversia - Immigration - Internet

When the fat man comes inching down your chimney this year, turn up the fire and run him off, as he is an "illegal immigrant worker" according to one website:

Santa isn't welcome in Hazleton because he's an illegal immigrant just like all the others the Pennsylvania town is trying to get rid of -- or so someone would have you believe.

A new Web site, http://www.nosantaforhazleton.com, says the town intends to keep Santa out this Christmas because he represents the illegal immigration the town council believes increases crime and burdens local services.

But the site is a hoax, created by someone in a bid to satirize a local law passed in July that has attracted national attention by imposing penalties on businesses and landlords to deter them from hiring or renting rooms to illegal immigrants.

While it's unknown who is behind the online campaign to boycott Santa due to his immigration status, it's pretty clear that it's the work of a few snarky activists who find Hazleton, Pennsylvania's anti-immigrant policies absurd. Check out the "PSA":

Via / Reuters

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