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I think the people of this community should ask themselves if they too had a hand in this influx. If so many illegals are in this town, they have to ask themselves, why? The citizens are the ones hiring them. The illegals are their maids, child care providers, landscapers and gardeners and drivers. They fix and build their homes.

Go to the posh Hamptons in NY and when you see who rides the buses in and out town, you know that it's not just fast-food chains, Mega-Stores and construction workers hiring them. Even obscenely wealthy people want to save a few bucks.

>>>The citizens are the ones hiring them.

I can't speak for CT; but in NJ, it is the politicians that hire them, Pay for Play contract bids.

They pay the illegal workers peanuts and then bill the general fund the top going market price for the jobs they do.

Don't know where the price difference goes.

Maybe if former Gov Whitmann is a member of this forum, she might come over and explain it to us.

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.

Downtown Danbury used to be mostly Black, Portuguese and Vietnamese who churches brought in as refugees after the fall of Saigon. The Vietnamese took care of a pigeon problem which had plagued Danbury after the building of i84. All these people are no longer visible, only the Mexicans and South Americans, who were brought up by their Portuguese's communities ties, which now dominate Danbury as if someone just brought them en mass. Downtown Danbury is Spanish speaking, signs are in Spanish, and many 'help wanted' ads are looking only for those who can speak Spanish.

I have been looking for this cheap housekeeping which all these pro illegal immigration people seem to promise, and all I can find is the usual $60.00 a shot variety.

Danbury has Illegals who have opened up their own business's. They can significantly underbid the rest of us because they pay no insurance, taxes, Medicare, unemployment etc. They are not sources of cheap labor for anyone who is obeying the law, however they have created a considerable rich underground and illegal economy which is a parasite on the legitimate local economy. They are using all of the infrastructure free and sending much of their proceeds out of country, they are not even putting it back into Danbury. The government's failure to stop this is the only reason that it persists. It is not good for any native. I can see no reason why our leaders seem to believe that it is fine, other than that they believe that communities such as Danbury are disposable.

the people of this community should ask themselves if they too had a hand in this influx

Give me a break. Danbury is just over the CT border from Westchester/Putnam counties, and this article exactly describes the situation in virtually every town here. These are normal American villages just overrun with illegals. INS, or ICE, or whatever it's called these days, does squat. The townspeople are sick of it, but the local governments' hands are completely tied. In our town, there's a "Hispanic Coalition" - local version of ACLU - that springs to alert when cops try to enforce the law. In fact, there IS no more loitering law in our town, thanks to the Coalition. Before you blame ordinary Americans, try investigating just how completely check-mated ordinary Americans are on stopping "this influx."