Harris Supporters Receive Fake Campaign Mailers About Hosting Migrants

Some supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris in Shrewsbury recently received mysterious postcards in the mail thanking them for their support and telling them to prepare to host migrant families.

The mailers were apparently sent to residents who had displayed Harris/Walz yard signs in an attempt to confuse or intimidate them.

“We are so appreciative of you putting out a yard sign. But now we need your continued help,” the cards read.

Some spaces were left blank and later filled in with handwriting. One resident posted an image of a card on Reddit. It was filled out to tell the recipient that they would start hosting a family of four from Belize on Nov. 3, two days before Election Day.

Another resident showed an NBC10 Boston reporter a card that informed them they would be hosting a family of two from Nicaragua.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has centered heavily on immigration, stoking fears about migrants coming into the country to rape, murder, and steal jobs from residents. Trump has called them “animals” who are ruining the “fabric” of the country.

There has been a surge in migrants heading to Massachusetts, contributing to a shelter crisis that Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has worked for more than a year to handle.

Thomas Whalen, a professor of social sciences at Boston University, said that the Shrewsbury mailers were a “ham-handed attempt to undermine our democratic process” and proof of a rising “fascist authoritarianism” in the U.S.

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Whalen said he was concerned that this could be construed as an illegal violation of the Civil Rights Act. {snip}

In a statement, a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson said the mailers don’t constitute a “threat.”

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