Bill seeks to prevent Colonias (Texas)

Corpus Christi Cller-Times ^ | February 10, 2005 | Tim Eaton

[SwinneySwitch]

Good idea! Let's stop them before taxpayers have to fix 'em!

[marty60]

No that is not the idea. It is an attempt to turn south texas into a "little Mexico". Squatters in other words.

[My2Cents]

Uh, don't these areas have zoning and building code ordinances? Fine the heck out of the developers.

[Bombardier]

Good idea! Let's stop them before taxpayers have to fix 'em!

Better idea: Since most of the people in the colonias are ILLEGALS, why don't we call in INS, the Border Patrol and Los Diablos Tejanos (that's the Texas Rangers for those of you in Rio Houston) AND SEND THEM BACK TO MEXICO!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Colonia? Now, what would be the word for that in English?

[lilakblosm]

colony

[shellshocked]

It seems illegal immigration has other negative consequences.

[SwinneySwitch]

Colonia Ping!

[green iguana]

Uh, don't these areas have zoning and building code ordinances? Fine the heck out of the developers.

No, no, and there are no developers.

[johnb838]

Uh, don't these areas have zoning and building code ordinances?

Isn't that the point? It's a "No Controlling Legal Authority" situation.

[Dog Gone]

They're building these things sometimes without bothering to check for oil and gas pipelines which are thick in the area. Naturally, when they blow themselves up, they'll get a jury of their peers to make the oil companies pay millions of dollars.

[My2Cents]

Is there no controlling legal authority, are is there authority, but those in authority are too cowardly to enforce the law? It's just a guess, but I'd bet most of those squatters are in this country illegally. Why isn't the INS clearing those places out?

[My2Cents]

Illegal immigration clearly results in the importation of poverty.

[My2Cents]

are = or

[Jason_b]

The article mentions flooding? That place pretty damn dry to me.

[Muleteam1]

>>Uh, don't these areas have zoning and building code ordinances?<<

The colonia I visited South Texas was built in the middle of a cotton field, had dirt streets (if you could call them streets), houses built from household goods packing crates, no window glass in the houses, and no one spoke English. This colonia was the product of illegal immigrants not any developer.

Muleteam1

[dzzrtrock]

Whoa! and that is their idea of "better than mexico"? That IS mexico!

[Jason_b]

looks. It looks pretty damn dry to me.

[My2Cents]

This colonia was the product of illegal immigrants not any developer.

I was responding to this comment in the article: "The bill's two-pronged approached would allow Nueces County to receive state and federal grants that have historically been reserved for border communities, and it would put demands on developers."

[CindyDawg]

I have mixed feelings about this. For public safety ,septic systems should be in place but if I want to rough it on my raw land that should be my business.