Posted on 08/13/2007 12:37:32 PM PDT by SmithL
Thermal, Calif. (AP) -- Life is harsh for the 4,000 migrant workers who live in the Desert Mobile Home Park, where hundreds of dilapidated dwellings sit along dirt streets. The 110-degree air is thick with large black flies and the stench of raw sewage. Wild dogs prowl the alleys.
But conditions could get even worse if the federal government follows through on its threat to close this site on a sun-baked Indian reservation because of rampant health and safety violations.
"Where are we going to go, where are they going to put us?" asked Angelina Cisneros, 59, who lives with her family of four in a crumbling sea-green trailer. "We don't have any money."
The fertile Coachella Valley is one of the nation's richest farming regions and home to five-star tourist destinations such as Palm Springs. But the thousands of migrant workers who toil in the fields struggle to find housing. On annual wages of just $12,000, many families can afford only squalid homes.
Desert Mobile Home Park is unusual because it's located on the Torres Martinez Indian Reservation — beyond the reach of state and local governments.
Thus far, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has not been able to provide any alternatives for residents, even as it prepares to ask a federal judge next month to order a phased closure of the park over four months.
The judge could agree or instead demand that the owner make repairs or put the park into federal receivership.
The bureau is working with county officials to find alternative housing — a daunting prospect in a region southeast of Los Angeles where demand quickly overwhelms the 200 or more affordable units that come on the market each year.
"There's no easy answer, and I wish there was,"...
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The bite of that spider is much like the infection upon our economy and society from the invasion of the illegals.
Tears By Me Out The Heart.
Riverside County is considering several options for residents who could be displaced if the park is closed, including asking for temporary trailers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and expanding a mobile home loan program that helps residents in unlawful camps secure replacement housing.
There we go again. If this were to happen there would be lawsuits demanding food stamps, welfare, longer rent periods, utilities, cell phones if FEMA gives one cent of my money in this matter I will have a nice long talk with my congress critter.
Brown Recluse...nasty.
And the amazing thing is, people keep right on multiplying even when they’re living in conditions like those in the picture you posted, and even if their government is handing out free contraceptives.
Except that TJ has cool bars on the strip.
(Used to attend SDSU)
Right over here:
Geez, that’s what I thought. I’ll add this to my list of Third World hell holes being established in the United States as a part of the colonization project under way, supported by the Mexican government.
Me too, that way it won't cost me anything.
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I love the use of the world “struggle” in the headline. So Communist!
LOL. I think we understand the Liberal mindset perfectly.
“Seems somebody among the tenants should be able to scare up a few bucks for some improvements, even if the landlord won’t.”
They can’t as they are wiring all that money outta the country.
The door is to the south.....
“... hundreds of dilapidated dwellings sit along dirt streets. The 110-degree air is thick with large black flies and the stench of raw sewage.”
Just like Mexico. They ought to feel right at home.
To bull doze the park and put their buns on the side walk in Mexico city.
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