Florida's migrants still await storm aid

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | November 27, 2005 | Associated Press

[VOA]

Palm Beach County, thought of as the winter playground for retired New Yorkers,
is home to an estimated 190,000 Hispanics,...

A place with a bunch of undocumented immigrants that can be hired
on the cheap and exploited...
well, of course, that's where "progressive" liberal New Yorkers would
tend to congregate!

[Mr_Moonlight]

despite the SUV-sized hole in their living-room ceiling

What is it with the MSM's penchant for involking SUV's on everything that happens ?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

...despite the SUV-sized hole in their living-room ceiling...

Put a hanging chad over it.

[TCats]

<>"But in front of their home, a trailer housing nine illegal immigrants was"

Welcome to the 21st Century version of servitude - I call it 'Neo-Slavery'. The employers get docile, on the cheap labor, do not pay taxes or SS and reap the benefits. When something happens these people are on their own and rely on the Taxpayer to make up the shortfall. Nothing new or, for that matter, racist here - Just plain old employer profits and a fraud upon the Taxpayer.

[stylin19a]

Vasquez, who emigrated more than 20 years ago ...She and her husband Ernesto, ... are permanent residents

Vasquez, who speaks little English,...

We need to improve communication with Hispanics,"

sigh...beam me up, scotty

[Clemenza]

Palm Beach County, thought of as the winter playground for retired New Yorkers, is home to an estimated 190,000 Hispanics, up from about 140,000 in 2000, according to the U.S. Census. That is about 15 percent of the county's population.

Most of the Hispanics in Palm Beach County are Guatamalan (mainly Mayan, ie don't even speak Spanish) or Mexicans from the far south of that country. There are also plenty of Haitians, legal and illegal.

Most Palm Beach County "residents"/voters don't care as long as their yard work is done and their bed pans are cleaned. As my transplanted from New York/Open Borders father told me over Thanksgiving, "who else is going to push my wheelchair?"

[Clemenza]

MEDIAN price of a house in Palm Beach County is over $400,000. Many rentals have been converted to condos. As a result, the illegals often commute 40 miles from Pahokee and Belle Glade to work in Boca Raton and Delray Beach.

[Joann37]

I'm more worried about the U.S. citizens in Mississippi, who to this day, are apparently still living in tents! It's been three months; how much longer can they live like that? It seems like most of the aid and attention went to those in New Orleans; other communities affected by Katrina seem to have been forgotten.

[Mr_Moonlight]

I'm more worried about the U.S. citizens in Mississippi, who to this day, are apparently still living in tents!

Not a whole lotta news up here in NY about the plight of Mississipi, but I understand that Biloxi was pretty much wiped off the face of the earth ... and yet not a peep from the MSM about it, anywhere!

[Between the Lines]

...the red "X" on their door marking the mobile home as condemned...
but the couple have yet to be visited by aid workers or local officials.

So they put the big red X on their own door to condemn their own home?

[Fishing-guy]

It's very sad, but just how much can the government do? Now that we are moving into the more frequent hurricane period, watch out.

[Lorraine]

These are god loving people,just like you and I.You should be ashamed of your self.However you sound like a scumbag.

[commonasdirt]

To any illegals waiting for hurricane relief from me. Be patiant, my check will be in the mail....honest....no foolin'....keep waiting

[Lorraine]

Only care about yourself? scumbag

[msf92497]

I've heard the phrase before, but no-one has parsed out the literal meaning. Please, just what is a "SCUMBAG"?

[TCats]

"You should be ashamed of your self.However you sound like a scumbag."

Thanks for your God Loving words, but I'm a little confused. Exactly what did I say to set you off so? My position is that these people are being exploited just as certainly as slaves were in many respects. Does this make me a scumbag?

[Graybeard58]

Exactly what did I say to set you off so?,p> I wondered about that myself, so I reread your post and damn'd if I can find anything offensive in it.

[TCats]

Thanks. I think this lady needs to up her meds - Hop her African Grey has mode of a vocabulary than she does and says something besides 'Scumbag' over and over. :-)

[See her profile if you don't get my drift.]

[The Red Zone]

If I was Senor Fox, I'd be teaching English to everybody in Mexico. All the better to leech off of the USA.