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    Migrant encampment video

    Just another consequence of illegal immigration. Political correctness will be this nations doom.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHs0sETasY

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    Excellent video sent it to several folks.

    Many people aren't aware of where illegals stay before they get subsidized housing
    AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST -- A RAID A DAY KEEPS THE ILLEGALS AWAY

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    There is an uneasy relationship that exists between migrant workers living in encampments in the canyons and the homeowners living nearby. While benefiting from the needed labor force, fears of canyon fires, pollution, and crime create a tenuous situation.

    How can the topic of a shadow work force be addressed without sounding xenophobic, uncaring or hypocritical?

    A rape, which police believe was committed by a migrant worker near Canyonside Community Park in Rancho Penasquitos, prompted a community meeting with law enforcement officials to discuss the migrants' illegal encampment situation.

    The San Diego Police Department estimates about 300 migrants, mostly men, live in the canyons from Rancho Penasquitos to Carmel Valley.

    Area homeowner associations in pending lawsuits claim the number is several times higher.

    The police claim there are not enough officers to clear out the camps because they are needed on the streets to deal with real criminals, yet homeowners in the area pay soaring property taxes which should be funding more police and necessary community services.

    The fire department says that migrant cooking fires are not a serious issue, yet San Diegans are told to prepare for a "potential incendiary" fire season.

    The U.S. Border Patrol responds that it does not have enough agents to leave the border to apprehend illegal workers in the camps who would probably return in a few days anyway.

    State laws require farms to provide affordable housing for workers but according to the San Diego Neighborhood Code Compliance Department, there is no one to enforce the law.

    Without such housing, the labor force retreats to the canyons. Living in squalor without proper sanitation presents health risks for the migrants as well as the larger community. Thankfully, benevolent community organizations provide some housing and support while local authorities shrug their shoulders.

    There seem to be no easy answers but plenty of contradictions from authorities.

    Throughout North County, day laborers congregate at unofficial hiring spots forming awkward relationships with nearby businesses. "No Loitering" signs are posted and security guards are hired, but workers still arrive, as do employers ready to hire them for a day's wage. Working in exchange for a decent wage to support one's family is a hallmark of American life, yet there is growing intolerance for those soliciting work on street corners and parking lots.

    It was nearly 20 years ago that Congress enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act, exchanging an illegal alien amnesty for a ban on employment of illegal aliens.

    Over 2.7 million illegal immigrants were legalized, but there was no means for employers to verify new hires against Social Security or Immigration and Naturalization Service databases.

    Needing workers, employers may not have looked too closely at possible forged documents.

    Now Congress is proposing a "guest worker" program for future migrants and "earned legalization" for the estimated 11 million undocumented workers already in the United States. If housing issues are not addressed as part of the program, third world migrant shanty towns will continue to grow in the most prosperous country in the world.

    Gail Chatfield lives in Carmel Valley.

    http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07 ... 195502.txt

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    The report said they were encamped on private property. Why in the world don't the property owners get rid of that infestation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dk3
    The report said they were encamped on private property. Why in the world don't the property owners get rid of that infestation?
    I sent an E-mail to the land owners asking just that

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    The Village: Follow-Up Report

    The Village: Follow-Up Report

    http://www.nbc4.tv/investigations/10294792/detail.html

    ANA GARCIA: In a hidden camera investigation, we exposed how there are hundreds of homeless illegal immigrants living in a camp in deplorable conditions. Workers who pick tomatoes sold at some of the priciest grocery chains in California. The camp may now become the scene of a showdown headed by the Minutemen.

    At least 300 men, mostly undocumented workers from Mexico, are living like this in a makeshift village on the edge of these million dollar homes in Northern San Diego County. Our hidden camera investigation exposed the deplorable conditions they live in -- washing clothes in a dirty river, trash everywhere -- plus the problems of drinking, drug dealing and prostitution.

    JULIE ADAMS (HOMEOWNER): I am concerned about them. We need to get a safe space for them.

    ANA GARCIA: As part of our investigation we uncovered the local farms hiring them to pick tomatoes sold at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Gelson's and Mayfair markets.

    Migrants have been camping here for more than 20 years, but development has brought the homeless and homeowners closer than ever. The police are reluctant to go in.

    CAPT. BOYD LONG: I am not looking to rush into that canyon and move those people onto the surface streets of San Diego.

    ANA GARCIA: A local church that ministers in the camp on Sundays says the neighbors should show compassion because while they may homeless, they are not jobless.

    This man showed us how he lives. He says me makes $200 dollars a week and can't afford rent.

    JULIE ADAMS: It's a safety issue, a fire issue a quality of life issue to have a 300-man shantytown on the edge of our community.

    ANA GARCIA: While this is a local problem for some homeowners, it's a symbol of larger immigration issue for others.

    BROOK YOUNG: It does affect all of us.

    ANA GARCIA: Brook Young doesn't live anywhere near this illegal village. He's an amateur documentary maker who runs this website: ImmigrationWatchdog.com. It sells Minutemen t-shirts. He uses his camera and this site to push his political views.

    BROOK YOUNG: These people don't have a right to be there either.

    ANA GARCIA: This is tape he shot in McGonigle Canyon of a confrontation with workers from the county's mobile health clinic who were providing care to the migrants.

    And now Young says he's ready to do something about the village.

    BROOK YOUNG: We're trying to organize a big clean up in the encampment and take down the shanties.

    ANA GARCIA: This migrant doesn't have much, and the little he owns he locks in his shack. Come next week, he may have even less if Young and others have their way.

    City officials have been trying for years to find a place to build affordable housing for the migrant workers, but the land near the farms is some of the most expensive in San Diego County. In the meantime farmers continue to hire the migrants, the migrants keep coming over for the work, and then at night they return to same deplorable living conditions we just showed you. Whole Foods, Mayfair and Gelsen's did not respond to our story. Trader Joe's did not have a comment.

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    Re: The Village: Follow-Up Report

    City officials have been trying for years to find a place to build affordable housing for the migrant workers, but the land near the farms is some of the most expensive in San Diego County. In the meantime farmers continue to hire the migrants, the migrants keep coming over for the work, and then at night they return to same deplorable living conditions we just showed you. Whole Foods, Mayfair and Gelsen's did not respond to our story. Trader Joe's did not have a comment.
    Why are city officials trying to find a place to build housing for these illegal aliens? If the farmers are so hell-bent on hiring them, why don't they set aside property of their own to house their wonderful cheap workers? Seems only right to me!
    "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --Bush

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