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Title: Conn. Town Struggles With Illegal Immigrants
Source: Fox News
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154957,00.html
Published: Apr 28, 2005
Author: Rebecca Gomez
Post Date: 2005-04-29 17:18:52 by Zipporah
Keywords: Immigrants, Struggles, Illegal
Views: 497
Comments: 38

DANBURY, Conn. — This middle-class New England suburb is nowhere near an international border but it still has the illegal immigration problems familiar to cities like San Diego and Tucson, Ariz.

Mayor Mark Boughton (search) blames the government for his town's inability to cope with 15,000 illegal immigrants, approximately 19 percent of the overall population.

"This is one community that has been incredibly stressed by failed federal policy and we need help," said Boughton.

Because the illegal residents aren't counted in the U.S. census, Danbury (search) doesn't receive any federal aid for them.

"In terms of our social services, this presents a tremendous strain, particularly on quality of life of our neighborhoods, our schools our health care system," Boughton said.

Residents complain the influx is killing property values. Homeowner Peter Gadiel said neighbors are fed up. "They're blue collar workers and their whole life savings is tied up in their house and they're seeing their neighborhood being destroyed."

The mayor says he wants state police officers to be deputized as federal immigration officers — giving them access to a federal database and helping them track illegal immigrants. But Connecticut's attorney general said Boughton needs the approval of the governor and others before that can happen.

Boughton has set up a task force to inspect neighborhoods that have received a lot of complaints about buildings housing illegal immigrants. In one home, the task force found 30 cots in the basement, each one being rented for $5 a night.

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#25. To: Zipporah (#0)

Here's a little story about my Neighborhood.

I live in Minneapolis. I live in a part of town that is mostly professionals, and working class people. These people work their asses off, take care of their property, and basically do what we all do, and not live at everyone else's expense.

Then about 2 years ago, some guy bought this duplex which shares a fence adjacent to our parking lot. Within a matter of months, it was turned into a 4 plex. It is now, not only a residence for about a dozen or so Mexicans, BUT, it's also the place where the local scumbags can buy their dope.

We have our cars broken into, and we've had people lying in our parking lot. We had Illegals breaking into our laundry room, and rifling through the storage lockers. We had them cutting their hair in our laundry room sink.

We still see these morons out there in the summer time, blaring their fucking music, having cookouts, and fights at all hours of the night. We also have the smell of something cooking, and I don't mean food. It's a drug house, and a flop house for a lot of people who shouldn't even be in this country. So One day I call Immigration, and guess what they told me???

They said that I should mind my own business and that they can't just show up and check them for green cards because someone complains about them. When I mentioned the drug thing to them, they didn't care, and told me to call the police.

So I call the police, and tell them about the happenings over there, AND NOTHING HAPPENED. Because I'm a white guy, I'm immediately labeled a hateful racist who would love nothing more than to cleanse my neighborhood of all the non-whites I can.

Horseshit. All I want is a safe place for me and my wife. I want to be able to maintain my standard of living, and I sure as fuck want a laundry room that is safe and criminal free.

But hey, I'm moving soon, as I bought a house, and guess what??? A Mexican family moved in across the street from our soon to be new place, and the same fucking thing happened there too. So it isn't just an isolated incident, it happens all the fucking time.

You want to stop urban blight? Crime? Graphitti? Destruction Of Property? Rape? Murder??? STOP THE FUCKING FLOW OF ILLEGAL ALIENS.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-04-29   22:58:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#25)

I went through a very similar situation.

My house is located in the burbs of a small town in central Pa. Across the road from me was cornfield and this location was a somewhat private utopia for the first 10 years I lived here. It was quiet,private with very little traffic.

Then a Developer bought the corn field and built 5 very nice Duplexes with extremely high rents for this area. My wife and I figured people would move in who respected property rights and the development would not infringe too much on the way of life we were used to.

Then,the first tenants moved in directly across the road from us. I always suspected they were illegals beause of the situation and their life style. It wasn't long until the place was turned into a drug-infested flop-house which attracted all kinds of riff-raff. The traffic to that place was constant and resembled the local drive-thru bank on a Friday night. They would have those vehicles with the 15" woofers and would 'crank them' all hours of the night. They would party in the front driveway and throw their beer bottles on the road,in my driveway and yard. My yard was ripped apart from their 'customers' turning around in my yard. Its been almost 2 years since they left and I'm still trying to fix the damage.

Many mornings I would leave for work at 5:am and they would be over there drinking,doing drugs and talking as loud as they could in Spanish. It was a nightmare and many mornings I would have to clean broken beer bottles out of my driveway just so I could get out. None of them worked but they were able to pay an incredibly high rent and bought whatever they wanted. There is not a doubt that they were drug dealers. I never said anything to them or anyone in law enforcement because I was concerned about reprisals.

Finally after 3 years they moved out in the middle of the night and left everything. They would leave for a week at a time and leave their 2 Labs in the house. I suspect they would go to Philly on NYC to replenish their drug supplies. After they moved,the caretaker of the Duplexes told me the incredible damage they had done in the time they lived there. All the carpeting had to be replaced and huge sections of walls had to be relaced too from them punching holes in the walls. They had broken several windows and destroyed the cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms. In other words,they totally trashed the place. After,3 months of work,a fumigator and $30K,they were able to rent it again.

It was 3 years of pure hell.

I wish someone like that would move next to Jorge Bush.

Grumble Jones  posted on  2005-04-30   8:38:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Grumble Jones (#26)

Hi Grumble, welcome to 4.

christine  posted on  2005-04-30   10:45:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: christine, Jethro Tull (#27)

Thanks for the welcome Christine!

I've been lurking for a few months and I really like what I've read. It looks like a great bunch of like-minded folks here.

Jethro

Since I wrote that rather abrasive rant I won't disclose my exact town but I'm about 60 miles due East from you right near the majestic Susquehanna! :-D

How's old Ian doing?

Grumble Jones  posted on  2005-04-30   18:46:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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