Thread: MIGRANT WORKERS NOT PAID ENOUGH FOR LEGAL HOUSING

THIS IS HOW WE WILL END UP LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY IF WE LET BIG BUSINESS KEEP DRIVING DOWN WAGES WITH FOREIGN LABOR.

BIG BUSINESS DOES NOT CARE HOW THEIR WORKERS HAVE TO LIVE. AND THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE SCREAMING THAT THEY NEED ILLEGALS TO SURVIVE. WHAT KIND OF HORRIBLE PEOPLE COULD LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR EVERYDAY WHEN THEIR EMPLOYEES DONT EVEN HAVE THE BASICS?

THEY WILL HAVE US ALL DOING THIS IF THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. THEY ARE CHIPPING AWAY LITTLE BY LITTLE AT THE RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS AND THE STANDARD OF LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/feds-may-t ... 2809990009

Feds may try to shut Calif trailer park for poor conditionsAP
Posted: 2007-08-01 11:28:02
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - The federal government is considering whether to try to close a desert trailer park for failing to make necessary repairs, raising concerns about what would happen to the poor farmworkers living there.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs said Tuesday conditions at the Desert Mobile Home Park could pose a threat to residents' health and safety, and concluded that numerous repairs ordered in 2004 had never been made.

"Based on what we have seen it is unlikely we will give them another chance," said James Fletcher, superintendent for the Southern California Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

If agency officials decide the park should be shut down, they will ask a federal judge to close the facility.

Last month, the BIA inspected the 40-acre park, which is on the Torres Martinez reservation, after a fire in May destroyed six trailers and left eight families homeless. The agency documented crowding, unsafe drinking water, sewage leaking onto the ground and electrical problems.

Park owner Harvey Duro, a member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, said he's tried to make repairs and renovations, but government agencies have not set clear requirements and guidelines for him to follow.

He said he approached the BIA and the tribe before opening the park in 1999, but neither provided him with any guidance or regulations for operating.

"I didn't know the need was so large in the area of people needing homes. I just opened lots up, and they brought their trailers in, and we just exploded so fast," Duro said, when reached by the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

The park, often known as Duroville, is the largest of five major trailer parks on the reservation and houses thousands of low-wage farmworkers.

The parks expanded rapidly in the late 1990s when Riverside County began enforcing health and safety codes at hundreds of off-reservation illegal trailer parks. Fearing eviction, thousands of residents fled to the reservation where the county building, health and safety standards don't apply.

Fletcher said mobile home parks on tribal land must sign lease agreements with the BIA to ensure that government standards are met. None of the mobile home parks that opened on Torres-Martinez land in the late 1990s and early 2000s did so, he said.

Riverside County Supervisor Roy Wilson, who represents the area, said he met with Fletcher Tuesday and believes Duro will be allowed time to make repairs.

He said the county doesn't have the housing stock to accommodate a complete shut down of the park and would have to find an alternative.

"If we got into crisis stage and the court shut it down in 30 days, we would have to declare a state of emergency in the county," he said.

Arturo Rodriguez, a lawyer with California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. in Coachella, said he'd like to see Duroville close but it should be done over a long period of time and with federal assistance, otherwise more hardship will be created.

"That's always been the problem with Duroville," Rodriguez told the Los Angeles Times. "No one likes the place; it's terrible. It's a disaster waiting to happen. But if they are serious about closing it they need to come up with a plan to house these people."

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08/01/07 11:27 EDT

redpony353 wrote

BIG BUSINESS DOES NOT CARE HOW THEIR WORKERS HAVE TO LIVE. AND THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE SCREAMING THAT THEY NEED ILLEGALS TO SURVIVE. WHAT KIND OF HORRIBLE PEOPLE COULD LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR EVERYDAY WHEN THEIR EMPLOYEES DONT EVEN HAVE THE BASICS?

I'll tell you. These people have no faith. They are cowards who are selfish, greedy and self-serving. They are the bottom feeders of society. They reek with corruption and self-righteousness. They have no concern for mankind and slavery is their goal. If you took away all of their money and left them with absolutely nothing, these poor bastards wouldn't know how to survive.

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THANK YOU SAVEOURCOUNTRY. YES THE ARTICLE YOU POSTED ACTUALLY HAS MORE INFORMATION IN IT THAN THE ONE I POSTED. AND IT BETTER REFLECTS THE GENERAL POOR ATTITUDE TOWARDS WORKERS BY BIG BUSINESS IN OUR COUNTRY.