Posted on 06/03/2011 11:06:13 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
EL PASO - It's disgusting, unsanitary and it's going to leave you shaking your head. Migrant workers have turned a Downtown El Paso alley into a gigantic toilet.
Human urine stains the walls and feces is piled up in an alley that's just blocks away from the Convention Center and other tourist hotspots.
"If they don't let you go inside, you have to go anywhere. That's why El Paso is like that," Roberto Miranda said.
Miranda is a migrant worker. He sleeps outside of the Farm Workers Center, like at-least one-hundred other people, and he waits for work in the early morning hours. The disgusting alley is around the corner from the center. Miranda admits the migrant workers us it as their personal toilet.
"No, nobody thinks this is sanitary," Miranda said.
He told us the migrant workers have no choice but to use the restroom outside.
"We don't want to do that, but all the time when we want to go inside they say 'no,'" he said.
We questioned the Director of the Farm Workers Center. He told us the people that urinate and defecate in the alleys are not migrant workers.
"Most of the people in the street are homeless people," Carlos Marentes said.
Marentes told us the alley isn't his problem.
"That's a problem by the city. That's a social problem the city needs to address," he said.
We also spoke to neighbors.
"Hepatitis A, B and C can be in any of those mounds of feces, and they're all over the place," Randy French said.
Despite being concerned for his family's health, French doesn't think the problem is the migrant workers.
"Parts of me blame them, especially the ones who get really drunk. The biggest part no, because they have no facilities," he said.
French says he's reported the problem to the city, but he says the city has ignored his pleas for help.
"I think somebody through the city should be responsible for cleaning up all the mess, and the quick fix is porta potties," he said.
Today Mayor John Cook told us he's been well aware of the problem, but he said he doesn't know how to fix it. He said he's already sent Code Enforcement out, but he says they need to catch the people in the act. He says that hasn't happened.
Tonight we're still waiting for the City of El Paso to tell us who is responsible for the cleanup.
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Everywhere Democrats protect “the homeless” you have this. Walk around a major city after 5 pm and smell the Thunderbird wine, mixed with urine and feces. I’ve seen needles laying around on the sidewalks, half filled with something, blood and drugs. The “homeless” live in bushes, under overpasses, and along bike trails, building trash cities, polluting every area they’re in. Downtown businesses have to put up with them sleeping, urinating and defecating in the doorways, having sex in front of workers,
you name it. For some reason, this is a Democratic liberal ideal culture
Down in the west Texas toilet, El Paso
I fell in love with a urinal girl....
“I fell in love with a urinal girl/night time would find me /out in the alley...’’
Why don’t our liberal friends start an organic garden in the area. Then the illegal can get paid for their droppings and everyone will win.
That is working in Germany right now. Organic foods giving the gift of E-Coli to all.
LOL! Yeah, I figured that.
I would pay higher too, particularly knowing they haven’t crapped and pissed in the fields they’re working in.
That reminds me- I need to get some Jane Fonda urinal deodorant cakes for my local pub...
DNA tests ought to identify the offenders.
Feces & Urine Problem in Downtown El Paso
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