

When I lived much further north, we used to get a bus full once a year. They were given cash and told to make a life for themselves. Anyone from a small northern town knows how hard it can be to be a new person, even with a full time job and income.
They were set up to fail.
He was openly gay. His home had been burned down. His pet had been killed and put on display. Pretty easy to hop over to hate crime with that info.