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Ritzy Colorado ski resort Carbondale warns it is buckling under influx of Venezuelan migrants who are sleeping five to a CAR after word got around that town had lots of jobs available
Daily Mail UK ^ | UPDATED: 19:03 EST, 13 December 2023 | By MARTHA WILLIAMS

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: carbondale; colorado; illegals; venezuelans
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1 posted on 12/14/2023 6:02:32 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Voting Democrat has it’s (stupid) prizes.


2 posted on 12/14/2023 6:03:38 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Red Badger

Time to put that big liberal heart to work


3 posted on 12/14/2023 6:04:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Red Badger

You should feel like you’re being replaced, because you are.


4 posted on 12/14/2023 6:04:56 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Red Badger

So they find out there are no jobs and yet they stay?

D.oh.


5 posted on 12/14/2023 6:05:21 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Red Badger

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.


6 posted on 12/14/2023 6:07:12 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Red Badger

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.


7 posted on 12/14/2023 6:07:57 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Red Badger

125 illegals? That’s ALMOST as many as 2.5 million per year, isn’t it?


8 posted on 12/14/2023 6:08:49 AM PST by Bernard (We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
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To: Red Badger

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.


9 posted on 12/14/2023 6:09:10 AM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: Gaffer

Well, MV is an island, so they are intrinsically safe, but you can drive to Carbondale........................


10 posted on 12/14/2023 6:09:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

It is Jackson Hole, Wyoming that is doing all of the hiring.


11 posted on 12/14/2023 6:09:50 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Liz Cheney?................


12 posted on 12/14/2023 6:10:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


13 posted on 12/14/2023 6:11:33 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Red Badger

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


14 posted on 12/14/2023 6:12:18 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Red Badger

Carbondale Colo, avg Jan low 14 degrees. Those tropical travelers won’t be there long.


15 posted on 12/14/2023 6:12:41 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Red Badger

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.


16 posted on 12/14/2023 6:12:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The damage Biden and his freak show is doing to America is not reversable.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I heard Dick Cheney and his slut daughter were hiring all the illegals they can find in Jackson Hole, WY.


17 posted on 12/14/2023 6:13:12 AM PST by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Yes....send them, there!

Liz and her dad can greet them.


18 posted on 12/14/2023 6:14:28 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: silverleaf

It seems, from the article, that they are working. They just can’t afford a place to live.


19 posted on 12/14/2023 6:14:36 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like Carbondale is a “small town with big houses” to me.


20 posted on 12/14/2023 6:15:19 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The damage Biden and his freak show is doing to America is not reversable.)
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