[no-to-illegals]

I have no sympathy for these people.
This author doesn't care about American
citizens otherwise this author would be
demanding these people be removed from
this nation. In all likelyhood these
people are illegally in this nation.
The author is definately a traitor to
the nation and its citizens.

[DTogo]

the state's failure to respond to the needs of the mostly Mexican and Central American workers who in recent decades have reshaped Florida's agricultural communities, replacing many of the native black and Jamaican workers who once dominated the sector.

There you have it in a nutshell: doing the jobs no American will do - because they are here ILLEGALLY and will work for below-market wages to remain here, stealing jobs once held by hard-working Americans.

[WasDougsLamb]

They say Wilma also has underscored a larger problem: the state's failure to respond to the needs of the mostly Mexican and Central American workers ----There's always somebody pissin' and moanin they were forgotten and that nobody cares.

[missycocopuffs]

From the article... The trouble with finding a housing solution is compounded by a language barrier, with local and state officials unprepared to deal with the Spanish-speaking immigrants...

Vasquez, who emigrated more than 20 years ago from Sinaloa, Mexico, to California, where she met her husband...

Vasquez, who speaks little English, and half a dozen other farmworker wives recently attended a regional meeting to discuss hurricane recovery issues for the area's most vulnerable...

Sorry, ma'am, but if you, having lived in a host country for 20 years, cannot be troubled to learn the language of your host country, why should your hosts trouble themselves about you.

[DumpsterDiver]

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[Joe Boucher]

I live about 60 miles north of Pahokee and a few weeks ago my wife and I rode our Harley around the lake to see what damage there was.
There was a marina on the dike which holds back the big lake.The marina is no more but several large boats have been lifted up onto the dike maybe twenty or thirty feet above the normal lake level.
On the north side of Pahokee as you come into town along the lake there used to be royal palms along either side of the road. many are no longer. They were about 35 feet each and absolutely beautiful.
Pahokee is a poor migrant town and illegals from Haiti mostly it seems. Here they pick sugar.
You can have absolutely no education and still pick sugar.
In nearly every city in America these apartments would be condemed and torn down. And that is on their best days. Now they are in even worse shambles.The trailers are demolished
These folks came here and live like animals in this mess, and it still is better then where they came from.

[Eva]

Do these people own the mobile home? There was an article in the Seattle paper about the Florida residents who are still displaced from Ivan. The profiled a woman who was complaining that the home that she rented was not rebuilt for her, that the homes that were wrecked were replaced with more expensive housing.

[gubamyster]

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[dennisw]

I have no sympathy for these people.

I have sympathy for them. But I know dang well no matter how poor they are it's 10x better than what they had in Mexico or Central America

I wouldn't mind having a million or so illegals here to do farm work. The rest should be forced to leave via employer sanctions. Cut off the money they'll self deport