Posted on 12/14/2023 6:02:32 AM PST by Red Badger
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Venezuelan migrants are flooding to a posh Colorado ski resort town with no homeless shelter after hearing rumors that there are plenty of jobs to be offered.
Major U.S. cities are seeing huge influxes of migrant arrivals and Denver - with 2,600 migrants in the city's shelter system and 200 on the streets - isn't the only Colorado hotbed affected by the crisis.
Carbondale is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, with a population of around 6,434. The town is a 30-minute drive away from the high-end ski resort town of Aspen - located in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
Described as a small town with a big heart, the expensive community is overrun by at least 125 Venezuelan migrants who travelled to the remote mountain neighborhood after hearing word that there are plenty of job opportunities on offer.
However, the town is known for luxury ski chalet homes and is already facing a housing crisis - so the new arrivals have been left with no choice but to sleep outside in their cars.
The cheapest property currently on the market in the small town is $720,000 - with most houses valued at roughly $2 million, according to Zillow.
While there are small homeless shelters nearby in Aspen, they're usually overrun and have long waitlists.
Even as the weather drops to lows of 10 degrees at night, migrants are piling up to sleep in the vehicles they drove to the mountain town.
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Voting Democrat has it’s (stupid) prizes.
Time to put that big liberal heart to work
You should feel like you’re being replaced, because you are.
So they find out there are no jobs and yet they stay?
D.oh.
I wonder what the tax base for that ‘sleepy little rich town’ is. Where is the money being spent? WHO spends it? Smells like Martha’s Vineyard to me.
We just need a Federal Law requiring ALL Public Employee’s Nationwide to take 2 migrants in to their homes to feed and care for, Public Servants take 5.
125 illegals? That’s ALMOST as many as 2.5 million per year, isn’t it?
Place is most likely filled to the brim w/ white liberals who just can’t quite afford Aspen.
My heart pumps p**s for them.
Well, MV is an island, so they are intrinsically safe, but you can drive to Carbondale........................
It is Jackson Hole, Wyoming that is doing all of the hiring.
Liz Cheney?................
Residents should be mandated to take them into their homes and take care of them until their hearing comes up (in about four years).
They are suffering from the policies THEY voted for.
Karma and Schadenfreude.
I was talking about tax bases and the affluence of the inhabitants. Very similar to MV, regardless of whether it’s an island or not
Carbondale Colo, avg Jan low 14 degrees. Those tropical travelers won’t be there long.
I don’t think America can support the weight of all of this Venezuelan booschidt. The RATS should have had a plan on what they intended to do with all of these foreign invaders and not just invite them in thinking Americans would give them a big hug and invite them into their homes. DemocRATS are azhos trying to save the entire planet with money stolen from the wallets of America workers.
I heard Dick Cheney and his slut daughter were hiring all the illegals they can find in Jackson Hole, WY.
Yes....send them, there!
Liz and her dad can greet them.
It seems, from the article, that they are working. They just can’t afford a place to live.
Sounds like Carbondale is a “small town with big houses” to me.
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