A New Jersey Reader Tries To Tip Off The Nantucket Police Chief About Illegal Aliens; He Ignores Her; etc.

From: Rhona Nack (e-mail her)

I am a federal employee who works in law enforcement.

In 2006, VDAR wherein I wrote of advising the Nantucket town clerk that illegal aliens were throughout the island working on home construction crews.

By way of follow up during the two intervening years, I reached Nantucket Chief of Police William Pittman (contact information here: http://www.nantucket-ma.gov/Pages/Nantu ... BComm/nema ) to pass along the same message.

Pittman’s replies to my expressions of concern in phone calls and subsequent e-mails were haughty and dismissive. According to him, Nantucket has enough work for everyone.

But it looks like I am right (and have been for two years) and Pittman is wrong.

With the economic downturn, the island is undergoing a quick, vast and devastating transformation.

Some homes, vacant in the off-season, have dropped in value precipitously. With little new construction, the 15 percent (and rising) minority population is mostly unemployed. Many of the disaffected youths have formed gangs. [“Nantucket’s Cultural Clash,â€