Let me be perfectly clear, I'm not saying that everyone, or even the majority of people in that part of CT (or NY) are guilty of the "we need our illegals so we can pay them sub-standard wages" mind set. I am saying that a significant number of the "rich and influential" who live there ARE like that. Further I'm saying that those are the people that Shay's pays attention to.
I drove an ambulance for a living covering the area from the New Jersey side of the Hudson right across Westchester and all the way over to the Connecticut shore and down to NY City. I know the working class types that populate that world, particularly the ones that worked in emergency services. I also did things on that job like delivering oxygen to the Rockefeller estate over in Terrytown (one of the older brothers had emphezyma). I saw plenty of folks on both sides of the economic divide. Without doubt the rich ones who populated that area were "that type." There were also a fair number of yahoos in the other socio-economic ranks, if you know what I mean, but there were more than enough good folks to make up for it. Just like anywhere.