http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...tory?track=rss


"I was speechless," said Haider Quintero, a Colombian training for the priesthood who recently visited the parks as part of his studies. "I never expected to see this in America."
These people aren't even supposed to BE in AMERICA.

They feel comfortable here; it's like being back in Mexico. They tell me that."
It just kills me that we AMERICANS are ok with this feeling. Why do we allow these people to stay here??

"This place has some of the worst conditions I have seen," said Sister Gabriella Williams, who does community outreach in the parks and is raising money to build a learning center for residents. "And it's actually gotten worse since I last saw it."
It is not AMERICA's fault that conditions get worse in a place like this.. It is the people there; who Like the feeling of Mexico to go with them everywhere.

In their culture, girls often marry young and drop out of school to have children.

Anjelica Serrano, a Purepechan, watched her children play in the dirt. "I got married at 15," she said through an interpreter, "and have five children."

She is 24
No wonder they are Poor!!

At night, the dark streets come alive with thumping rap and mariachi music pouring from cars. Ice cream vendors work the narrow streets. Because there are no sidewalks, pedestrians keep a wary eye on traffic. Men gather in front of trailers, some drinking themselves into oblivion. Others have hard stares and watchful eyes. Residents say drug dealing is rife.
So.. is this the future America that our government is building for us?!?!