Posted on 04/11/2015 5:51:50 AM PDT by libertarian27
It all started about a year ago when I began noticing more homeless men in the Chicago neighborhood where I work. Back of the Yards is a community that faces some of the city’s toughest problems: joblessness, crime, drug use.
Many of these men would be sitting in doorways or shuffling along, many times asking for money.
One day, I asked one of them: “Where are you from?” He told me a story that I later heard again and again and again.
The men told me they were from Puerto Rico. They were addicted to heroin and they ended up in Chicago because someone in Puerto Rico drove them to the airport and put them on a plane with a one-way ticket to Chicago.
They were promised a great rehab place, with over-the-top services and plenty of medical staff. One of them is Angel, a short and dark-skinned man. He’s missing most of his top teeth. He said he came to Chicago from Puerto Rico seven years ago for help kicking a heroin addiction.
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Instant voters.
Since they’re technically American citizens, simply being in a state gives them the right to vote.
Did McKinley lose a bet?
so glad i don’t work in Chicago....I worked there in 2014 - saw it - was exposed to the craziness - and left!
Now the blacks in Chicago have to compete with latinos for the available heroin.
I’ve always thought this a brilliant way to get rid of the homeless. But them on Greyhound somewhere else.
But s/b put.
Yup. The streets are paved with gold somewhere else.
Nothing new here.
Puerto Rico has been dumping it’s dregs the states for as long as I can remember — at least since the 60’s.
That made it really difficult for the good folks to shake off the bad image and move ahead.
I’ve always heard stories of signs at San Juan airport advertising cities in the US with lucrative benefits, etc. but could never find -such signs. This article cracks open this aspect of shipping people to certain areas of the US.
Looks like a nonprofit NGO setup, just like the refugee resettlement outfits.
1996 story ,, PR sending criminals (”witnesses”) here to Florida forever... http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/us/puerto-rico-is-exporting-many-drug-case-witnesses-to-florida.html
No wonder the sheeple of Chicago had two low-lifes to choose from for Mayor.
Puerto Rico has figured out a way to solve its illegal drug problem, and it has been a rip roaring success.
I hope the entire United States will start doing exactly what Puerto Rico has done:
No, there is enough to go around. Plenty of white customers from the suburbs too. There is a dealer on every other street in areas of the south and west sides of Chicago. I started seeing more homeless Puerto Ricans on the all black west side last year. Most of them use heroin.
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