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.
I live in California and don't know much about Connecticut. I was relying on the article to provide the salient facts of the story. In my state it seems sometimes that standing around on street corners, blocking traffic, and scaring off citizens is the main occupation of illegals.