Thread: Arlington Construction Workers Aid Group Left In Parking Lot

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Arlington: Construction workers aid group left in parking lot

12:22 PM CDT on Monday, June 13, 2005
By ISABEL ROJAS / Al DÃÂ*a

Construction workers in Arlington aided some undocumented immigrants over the weekend after more than 50 of them were abandoned inside a trailer by a truck driver.

They were scared, hungry and thirsty but otherwise appeared all right, witnesses said.

Some apparently resumed their trek to the East Coast on Saturday because apparently neither police nor the Border Patrol saw them.

The immigrants were spotted by construction workers remodeling a building on Mayfield Road near State Highway 360.

"We saw two people walking there, and we thought it was strange. When we approached them, they started to run," said José RodrÃÂ*guez. "Those that didn't run were hungry and thirsty. We gave them water and food."

Lt. Blake Miller, a spokesman for the Arlington Police Department, said he heard rumors about a group of immigrants left abandoned, but he said he wasn't sure police got involved.

Immigration authorities in Dallas could not be reached Sunday.

Witnesses who talked to the immigrants said they were from South and Central America, heading for New York and New Jersey. The immigrants had paid as much as $15,000 to the smugglers for the trip to the East Coast.

They were left to fend for themselves when the truck driver stopped at a warehouse, unhitched the trailer and drove off, the immigrants told witnesses.

José Izaguirre, another construction worker, said the immigrants told him they were able to breathe through a few holes on the floor and ceiling while locked inside the trailer for several hours.

"They said the smugglers threw bottles of water through an opening in the roof, and there were holes on the top and the bottom so they could breathe," he said.

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Lt. Blake Miller, a spokesman for the Arlington Police Department, said he heard rumors about a group of immigrants left abandoned, but he said he wasn't sure police got involved.

Gee, only 50 Central American aliens...why should the police in Arlington be bothered with that?? After all, they're headed for the east coast.

Aaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhh

RR

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA......

is the East Coast.

This is Third World disgusting, nauseating, crap.

Now, tell me this: $15,000 paid to Coyotes in Mex Money!!

That is a fortune in Mex Money!

These immigrants are not coming here because they are broke and can't earn money in MEX.

See the hypocrisy? They have money to pay Coyotes to take them across the border, but they are "poor immigrants"!

Ask the average American how much money they have saved!!

HA!!!

That's 300 a head and there were probably families so they just squandred their money to sneak in here to do WHAT?? Earn "slave wages"?

Pleeeeeease. Give me a break.

They are not coming here just to work. They are coming here to do something else far more profitable or beneficial to their homeland.

These are mostly men without families with them. Forward troops do you think?

RR

Absolutely!! Advance foot soldiers. And the MEX GOV'T is probably using our $66 million in aid to front the cost to the Coyotes to get them here.

These people working in American factories in Mexico make $50 a week in the Mequiladora facilities.

How can they save up $300 a person to quit that job to head to the states?

Some of these "poor immigrants" pay Coyotes several thousand dollars a head.

WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THAT KIND OF MONEY IN MEXICO?