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The illegals are their maids, child care providers, landscapers and gardeners and drivers. They fix and build their homes.

The article says that this is a blue collar community. It is unlikely they are hiring maids and nannies. I would check out the larger industries in the area.

Do they have any chicken processing plants in the area? There have been cases were large companies have actually imported illegals to provide cheap labor. The large influx into this community suggests that this is likely the cause.

The article says that this is a blue collar community. It is unlikely they are hiring maids and nannies.

Many of the towns near Danbury are exceedingly rich. New Caanan, Ridgefield, Wilton. Many maids work in those towns -- and, of course, must find a nearby town in which to live.

Ye-es, Danbury is basically a blue collar town that once produced a goodly percentage of the nations' hats. The fortunes of the city declined along with the number of derby wearers and today Danbury is a working-class enclave surrounded by some of the priciest(and fastest developing)real estate anywhere. McMansions are popping up in western Connecticut...well, like McMansions in western Connecticut, and the wealthy liberals who inhabit them hire bargeloads of illegals to maintain their property and look after little Megan and Evan and Rachel while Mummy and Dah-dy are out voting for Democrats. Believe me, not many immigrants work in Danbury itself, and there are no large meat processors or other labor-intensive industries in the area. Construction is a huge draw, and if an immigration agent walked onto a building site in Ct., the place would look like a ghost town in a split second. Connecticut has become a massive yupscale bedroom community/Olde New England shopping mall, and such places always need lots of illegals,or so it seems.

As I said in another post, I live not far from Farmingville, NY another middle-class town that has also gained notoriety for this problem. Although many illegals live in Farmingville, they work all over the county for rich and working class alike.

There are several farms around here, and they hire immigrant labor. Strangely, just down the road is the local Cornell University Cooperative Farm which sponsors 4-H clubs, numerous children's programs and summer camp, and some of the workers are inmates from the minimum security prison. I wonder why instead of using cheap illegal labor on farms we just don't use non-violent minimum security convicts? It's certainly not cruel and unusual punishment.

Surprisingly, the new County head, a Democrat, Steve Levy has been working hard to bring this problem to national attention and is promoting laws that will allow police officers who've arrested known illegal immigrants to detain them until INS deports them (currently they are not required to do so). Unlike his Republican predecessors, he is taking action. He may be posturing to make Hillary look good in the upcoming election, but it's still a start.