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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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To: Paraclete

The only cure for pine beetle is fire..............


81 posted on 12/14/2023 9:51:01 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

SOMEONE LOST IN DETAIL ALL THE SKI RESORTS IN VENEZUELA

WHAT SKILLS COULD THEY POSSIBLY HAVE?????


82 posted on 12/14/2023 9:53:27 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Liz

That’s actually Mount Sopris in the background. Aspen is another 30 miles away.
FYI, live near here, Carbondale is a nice little town, or has been so. The venzies were pretty much dumped here (from Denver?) . The work may be in Aspen, but there is no housing available for anyone. Regular people commute from as far away as Grand Junction. On one single I70 to CO 82route. Insane.


83 posted on 12/14/2023 9:55:17 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: silverleaf
So they find out there are no jobs and yet they stay?
Outta gas?
84 posted on 12/14/2023 9:55:55 AM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: shadeaud

WHAT DRIVER’S LICENSES????

WHAT INSURANCE????

MY vehicle insurance in Nevada==39% of the premium due to illegals.


85 posted on 12/14/2023 9:56:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Red Badger

Back when I was a skier, I was also living with a very modest income. I helped lead a youth ski club at a local resort and got a free annual pass, for me and my kids. Almost always bought used ski’s. On occasion the security guy let me poke around the lost and found for gloves and goggles.

My vintage Columbia ski jacket is over 30 years old. I wore it five years ago the last time I went.


86 posted on 12/14/2023 10:05:24 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: cyclotic
My vintage Columbia ski jacket is over 30 years old.

That's nothing, I have 30 year old ski coats that I now use for snowblowing or snowmobiling in the thicket woods :) I think I just finally threw out my old CB Sports pullover from the early 80's.

87 posted on 12/14/2023 10:08:15 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“ 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.”

They didn’t think that. They brought them here to create a population for fraudulent votes, to replace the white majority population and to create a demand from the pope for government to “do something” about it.

And not many of those calling for government to fix it are going to like how government fixes it. And amnesty will just be one part of the very nasty fix…a fix that will do nothing but give the political elites exactly what they want.


88 posted on 12/14/2023 10:09:13 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: dforest
There are Carbondales all over the country.

This one in particular is named after the one in PA, which was the subject of the recent library book discovery.

That was the link-timing value.

As long as you brought up that there are others, the one in IL is at "X marks the spot" for the total solar eclipses ~ 7 years apart, so there's that one for its news-timing value.

89 posted on 12/14/2023 10:14:10 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Red Badger

Carbondale ritzy?

It’s where aspen area skiers stay to save money over aspen or snowmass etc


90 posted on 12/14/2023 10:19:33 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: drSteve78

Thx.

I’ve been to Aspen........on skis.....

So way up there, it looks really high.

I always assumed it was a mountain.....LOL.


91 posted on 12/14/2023 10:31:53 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: Red Badger

Excellent news...
They deserve what they voted for...


92 posted on 12/14/2023 11:31:33 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: central_va

“there are only wage shortages.”

Because $15/hr. to flip burgers is paltry.


93 posted on 12/14/2023 11:49:25 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - Wiersbe)
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To: MayflowerMadam

In Aspen it is.


94 posted on 12/14/2023 1:41:20 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

Relocate. It’s not hard; I’ve done it.


95 posted on 12/14/2023 2:30:15 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - Wiersbe)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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96 posted on 12/14/2023 2:44:43 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Paraclete; Pelham; Liz; drSteve78; Red Badger

I’m headed Durango and telluride via Santa Fe in the morning
From music city

Three lads all under 17

Two are LA boys from Santa Clarita

They only know the Rockies via 35,000 feet on SW from Burbank

Should be fun

Snow in the San Juans and Santa Fe Taos too

I’ll let you know on the dystopia and geography

It was fine six months ago when I was there

550 is open despite the snow

I doubt black bear is lol
That would take stones beyond my boulders

Prolly not Ophir either for that matter


97 posted on 12/14/2023 5:08:58 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Labyrinthos

License?

We don't need no steenkin' LICENSE!!

98 posted on 12/17/2023 12:45:57 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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