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 ...
“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.”
I call BS. There’s no way in hell migrants are locating due to the prospect of jobs. They’re not here for jobs; they’re here to scam us out of our tax money via handouts.
How can unemployed illegal aliens afford a car, gas, and insurance? How do they get a driver’s license?
Maybe they think all the rich people there will hire them for odd jobs, who knows. But Colorado is Blue, so I guess they want this.
“Folks attracted to signs that say ‘Jobs available here’ are the kind of migrants I like.”
I agree ... IF the folks have come legally, have taken and passed citizenship classes, and have pledged allegiance to the USA. The others are invaders.
Plenty of US citizens to work just not enough people willing to pay even starvation wages.
14F does some serious freeze damage. Next thing you know we will hear of the poor venezualians that froze to death in a snow drift!
Too bad julios!
Should have stayed, “south of the border, down Mexico way!!🎶🎵🎼”
Good and hard.
Go back home and overthrow Maduro.
They need to open up their homes. I suspect they have a lot of unoccupied condos.
This is buuuuu—ti—fullllll.
The rich liberals need to feel what “open borders” means.
“Plenty of US citizens to work just not enough people willing to pay even starvation wages.”
I think that now, post-Covid, there really aren’t enough US citizens inclined to work. They’re there; they’re just lazy wanting handouts.
Lets hope it’s very COLD Winter
Stolen car.
Siphoned gas.
No insurance.
No license.
Stupid old school (Mangerial Class) Republican comment. Ther is no such thing a labor shortage, there are only wage shortages.
Carbondale isn’t really a “ritzy little ski resort”, it’s where the workforce that cannot afford to live in the REAL ritzy little ski resorts - Aspen and Snowmass - commutes from.
Those smug NIMBY yuppies are gonna have brown grandkids.
I elk hunted east of there three years ago. We didn’t see jack. One bear and three deer.
Buy a drone so you can spot them.................
How’d they get license, buy a car, insurance, gas money?
I know, I ‘laugh’ as well.
Hope they take over Aspen.
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