Thread: SD seeking grant funds for illegal alien worker housing

From SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE Website:

Problem of migrant camps hard to solve, council learns

RANCHO PENASQUITOS – Action is being taken to address the problem of migrant-worker camps in the canyons in this community, but residents say much more needs to be done.

"I was unaware that anybody was doing anything about it," said Ray Van Meter of the Rancho Peñasquitos Town Council. "But a lot of things are going on. Is it having the desired effect? In my opinion, no it is not."

In July, the town council held a meeting, attended by representatives of several agencies, to address the health, safety and environmental problems it felt are caused by the makeshift camps.
On Thursday night, the council held a second session, attended by about 35 people, to learn what steps have been taken to deal with the issue.

Such steps, the council was told, include surveying the canyon areas by helicopter, filing an application for a state grant to build migrant housing and working with property owners to clean up the camp sites.

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Martinez said one of the larger camps has been cleaned up. The property owned by Caltrans is near Azuaga Road and Ranchos Peñasquitos Boulevard.

"It's manageable now," Martinez said. "Caltrans goes in there on a monthly basis."

The bigger problem, Martinez said, is the lack of housing for migrant workers.

"Three guys can't get together and go rent an apartment because of the high rents," he said. "But we do have a lot of open spaces."

San Diego is attempting to address that problem by applying for a $3 million state grant to build housing for migrant farmworkers. The Joseph Serna Farm Worker Housing grant would provide shelter for about 60 workers.

Sharon Johnson, homeless services administrator for the city, wrote the grant application and should know within a few months if it is successful.

"It would absolutely help this situation," she said.

The housing would be on 12¾ acres of city-owned land southwest of Interstate 805 near Sorrento Valley Road. It would be a communal project of two-and three-bedroom units with two men per bedroom. Workers would pay up to $5 a night.

There would be an employment center on the site.

Andrew Berg of the town council said he doesn't understand why private landowners are not fined for allowing camps on their property.

"If I put up a granny flat in my back yard . . . I'd be cited and fined very quickly," he said. "Why can't we use the laws that are already there?"

He and others said the problem is caused by people who hire the migrants. Berg said employers are trying to save money by hiring workers for $5 an hour rather than the $20 an hour a construction worker normally would earn.

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The city is looking for state grant funds to build housing for 60 illegal alien farm and construction workers because they work for $5 an hour, rather than forcing the employers to pay the going wage for legal U.S. workers and deporting the illegals. So if I were to live in a shack on some person's property or vacant canyon land, the state should build me housing for $5 a night? Gee, I don't know, but shouldn't these employers be fined, and the illegals rounded up and deported AS IS THE LAW? Talk about catering to illegal alien lawbreakers for the benefit of cheapskate employers, this is just ridiculous, but then again, I guess that's why San Diego is now referred to as MEXICO'S FINEST CITY.

A multimillion dollar housing project for illegal alien farm workers was opened recently in Washington State, funded by the federal government (read: your tax dollars). This is typical of a corrupt government controlled by corporate interests. But this subsidized housing, for illegal aliens, is housing that is better than most middle class Americans can afford...... well, I guess that is because middle class Citizens and Legal Residents are being taxed to death to pay for this nonsense.

This project in Washington was through the efforts of US Senator Patty Murray. Governor Gregoire of Washington has called for the expenditure of state and federal tax-dollars to provide additional housing for illegal aliens and to finance state government jobs for illegal aliens.

I cannot believe of what Ms. Johnson is proposing. How in the world could someone come up with an idea like that???

I think we all agree that the state money could be better used on sealing the border and deporting the illegals.

I'd love to rent a room for 5$ a night, no wonder they come. Fox pushes them out and we invite them in.

Fox must be the biggest HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR in the western hemisphere.

Let's see...I'll create a society that is so corrupt that people run screaming from it, so they get jobs in the strongest economy in the world and send back billions of $ every year...hey, and I don't have to pay social services for my Mexican ex-pats...the US will........yipeeeee

Originally Posted by legal4mykidsfuture

A multimillion dollar housing project for illegal alien farm workers was opened recently in Washington State, funded by the federal government (read: your tax dollars). This is typical of a corrupt government controlled by corporate interests. But this subsidized housing, for illegal aliens, is housing that is better than most middle class Americans can afford...... well, I guess that is because middle class Citizens and Legal Residents are being taxed to death to pay for this nonsense.

This project in Washington was through the efforts of US Senator Patty Murray. Governor Gregoire of Washington has called for the expenditure of state and federal tax-dollars to provide additional housing for illegal aliens and to finance state government jobs for illegal aliens.

Welcome to ALIPAC legal4mykidsfuture. Glad to have you on board.

Yeah this is sad and with this comes these that I am about to post on another thread, but this section on it. Goes well with this.

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TREASON!


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Well, one thing that I'm grateful for is that "SD" turned out to be San Diego and not South Dakota. That scared me at first. No wonder CA is bankrupt handing out money for these idiot projects. Wasn't there a study about a year ago that said illegal immigration was a net loss of $11 billion annually to state and local governments in CA?

If open space is so plentiful around San Diego and if there is such an abundance of wonderful cheap imported labor, then why is housing so unaffordable? Something doesn't add up.

Obviously, the workers aren't needed or they would be employed enough and their wages would be high enough that they could pay for their own housing. It appears that government officials are now running what amounts to a slave importing and holding programs to benefit rich constituents at the expense of everybody else -- and to buy a few votes from slave (uh, illegal immigration) advocacy groups with taxpayer dollars at the same time.

Note also the drift towards social communism where the government, in the name of the worker, owns and allocates most everything according to the ability to give and the need to have -- the elite would be exempt, of course. That may not be the intent of these people, but it does appear to be the result.

Oh yeah there was.

State's "cheap labor" costs average household $1,183 a year

Dateline: December, 2004

In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year.

Among the key finding of the report are that the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals.

"California's addiction to 'cheap' illegal alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle class tax base," stated Dan Stein, President of FAIR.

"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become."

The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Californians focuses on three specific program areas because those were the costs examined by researchers from the Urban Institute in 1994. Looking at the costs of education, health care and incarceration for illegal aliens in 1994, the Urban Institute estimated that California was subsidizing illegal immigrants to the tune of about $1.1 billion. The enormous rise in the costs of illegal immigrants over the intervening ten years is due to the rapid growth in illegal residents. It is reasonable to expect those costs to continue to soar if action is not taken to turn the tide.

"Nineteen ninety-four was the same year that California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187, which sought to limit liability for mass illegal immigration. Since then, state and local governments have blatantly ignored the wishes of the voters and continued to shell out publicly financed benefits on illegal aliens," said Stein. "Predictably, the costs of illegal immigration have grown geometrically, while the state has spiraled into a fiscal crisis that has brought it near bankruptcy.

"Nothing could more starkly illustrate the very high costs of ‘cheap labor' than California's current situation," continued Stein. "A small number of powerful interests in the state reap the benefits, while the average native-born family in California gets handed a nearly $1,200 a year bill."

The Federation for American Immigration Reform is a nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization advocating immigration policy reforms that would tighten border security and prevent illegal immigration, while reducing legal immigration levels from about 1.1 million persons per year to 300,000 per year.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrati ... legals.htm

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