The article states that their immigration status is unknown but I bet they're illegals.
Unless its someone I know (like a friend, neighbor, family, or the mailman) I NEVER go to the front door without a pistol in my hand. Most times if I don't know the person I don't even bother to answer the door.
Painfully obvious, isn't it? There's so many, they're too old to be in a local teenage gang, and they're clustered together for this enterprise--meaning no family ties.
Odds are you are correct. However they could be "guest workers". There was a report on CNN last night about the total chaos in INS and their approval system for green card holders, practically non existant. We have no idea who is in this country, legally or illegally.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/03/ldt.01.html
CIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security. It has 15,000 employees, and an enormous backlog of visa and green card applications. Among the charges, that up to a quarter of the administration adjudicators who approve green cards do not have full access to an important database for background checks. And the source says Congress members were told of 2,500 misconduct charges within CIS, allegations of bribery influenced by foreign governments, and trading green cards for sex. A spokesman for the agency also says since September 11, every applicant undergoes a background check, but acknowledged that not all applicants are screened through the important treasury database in question. But critics say more should be done to prevent the wrong people from getting green cards. MIKE CUTLER: When you're talking about, 2,500, even if only 1 percent is a valid complaint, you're talking about 25 people. Think what damage 19 terrorists did to our country.
ROMANS: These were confidential briefings to Congress, and the investigator who told members of Congress about these allegations and his concerns of national security breaches, the identity of that investigator is being kept secret
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051003-122319-3501r.htm US Probes green cards for sex