Posted on 06/20/2007 7:47:16 PM PDT by topher
One person is dead and four are hospitalized after an early morning house fire in Lafayette. The blaze broke out just before five Wednesday morning at a home on the 200 block of Lana drive. Two of the injured are in critical condition.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation, but fire officials say it appears to have started inside the house and destroyed most of the structure.
The names of the victims have not been released. As many as a dozen people, possibly migrant workers, lived in the house.
I believe the small wood frame house is only 3 bedroom.
Since there was a fire, and it is under criminal investigation, the fact that so many ADULTS were living in the same house is a health/safety concern.
The issue is out in the open because the people have no place to live and they have probably lost all of their belongings.
Since ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is under consideration in the Senate, a story such as this deserves closer scrutiny...
Do we really need more reasons to call our representatives in Washington, D.C.?
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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Additional information was that four of the people were burned in the fire, and two were severely burned.
I have heard reports of people complaining about the rooster crowing at 5am in that neighborhood.
“The house is supposedly owned by a Restaurant owner, and the 10-12 occuppants of the house worked for that person at the restaurant”
Restaurant owner had a good racket for awhile/
just burning down the houses that Americans won’t burn down!
Always sad, but these incidents don’t need to be happening in the first place. May the victims RIP.
I almost consider this to be a form of slavery... Though I think the workers did have cars to get around in (or may have had)...
The owner (restaurant and house) probably knew they were illegals and would not complain about low wages at the restaurant and high rent for the house.
There should be a way to find out through public records who the owner of the house is... [If you know the address]
So there should not have been 10-12 people crammed into the small house to begin with...
It is sad, but maybe it could have been prevented.
The house owner was also the people's employer -- according to my sources -- he/she was a restaurant owner...
I also believe it was 10-12 men and women living together -- all adults, according to various news articles...
One of the aspects to fighting the illegal invasion is bringing very serious criminal charges against those that allow these sorts of “arrangements” to occur. In the case of these people, negligent criminal homocide should be pressed to the max. All of this business is scarcely a step above slave labor, if not precisely that.
“There should be a way to find out through public records who the owner of the house is... [If you know the address]”
It is modern slavery, and any realtor has the software to look up the owner of record in 2 minutes.
I remember a case in Dayton a few years ago. A chinese restaurant owner had a house with dozens of people living there who worked in his restaurant. He had freakin’ bunk beds built for all the people. I never thought of it like a slave trade, but that’s exactly what it is.
They forgot to add to the article title, “Thousands Homeless.”
What I find curious is why Big Labor isn’t coming out full-force against a lot of this shamnesty crap and applying pressure to their Democrat political lackeys in Congress. This sort of thing isn’t good for them, as it cuts into their turf. Cheap and non-union neo-slavery should be their enemy. Then again, maybe they’re looking for their own cut of the action.
Records showed that Rodney E. Manning is the owner of the house...
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