Posted on 06/03/2011 11:06:13 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
EL PASO - It's disgusting, unsanitary and it's going to leave you shaking your head. Migrant workers have turned a Downtown El Paso alley into a gigantic toilet.
Human urine stains the walls and feces is piled up in an alley that's just blocks away from the Convention Center and other tourist hotspots.
"If they don't let you go inside, you have to go anywhere. That's why El Paso is like that," Roberto Miranda said.
Miranda is a migrant worker. He sleeps outside of the Farm Workers Center, like at-least one-hundred other people, and he waits for work in the early morning hours. The disgusting alley is around the corner from the center. Miranda admits the migrant workers us it as their personal toilet.
"No, nobody thinks this is sanitary," Miranda said.
He told us the migrant workers have no choice but to use the restroom outside.
"We don't want to do that, but all the time when we want to go inside they say 'no,'" he said.
We questioned the Director of the Farm Workers Center. He told us the people that urinate and defecate in the alleys are not migrant workers.
"Most of the people in the street are homeless people," Carlos Marentes said.
Marentes told us the alley isn't his problem.
"That's a problem by the city. That's a social problem the city needs to address," he said.
We also spoke to neighbors.
"Hepatitis A, B and C can be in any of those mounds of feces, and they're all over the place," Randy French said.
Despite being concerned for his family's health, French doesn't think the problem is the migrant workers.
"Parts of me blame them, especially the ones who get really drunk. The biggest part no, because they have no facilities," he said.
French says he's reported the problem to the city, but he says the city has ignored his pleas for help.
"I think somebody through the city should be responsible for cleaning up all the mess, and the quick fix is porta potties," he said.
Today Mayor John Cook told us he's been well aware of the problem, but he said he doesn't know how to fix it. He said he's already sent Code Enforcement out, but he says they need to catch the people in the act. He says that hasn't happened.
Tonight we're still waiting for the City of El Paso to tell us who is responsible for the cleanup.
Mike
From the “all cultures are equal” files.
Turd World cheap lettuce ping
So, because you want to save money and sleep in your car the City of El Paso must provide you a toilet??? As a taxpayer I say pee and crap in your car!!!!
Kitty litter may be the answer.
The moon was bright the sky was blue down the alley the shit wagon flew In the alley a scream was heard a man was killed by a flyin' turd On his gravestone said in words killed in action by flying turds ...
Scoop Away, Migrant Worker strength?
Once upon a time such people were arrested for vagrancy, whipped and jailed.
Welcome to the third world culture our government wants here and protects.
Our esteemed ‘won’ was just in El Paso pimping for the illegals.
Thanks for letting me know not to go there.
And I love the idiots that tell me when I say they all need to be deported, “Be prepared for high priced veggies?” Well, sure. I grow my own stuff and I only eat what is in season. So bite me!
I’m sure in the Texas heat the smell is splendid.
Roberto, you could go HOME.
Can’t catch them in the act?
Post a person in the alley or maybe a camera.
If the illegals want to stay here make them clean it up.
Urine trouble now...
The solution is obvious: Raise taxes, use the revenue to buy them their own homes and supply them with complete housekeeping staffs. And if you would also just pay them a decent wage to stay home instead of working, they wouldn’t be hanging out in the alley.
Farm Workers Center
workers have no choice but to use the restroom outside
sent Code Enforcement out
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If an outdoor bathroom is not provided, no enforcement of codes will change the problem. Or allow workers inside. Or do away with the illegal immigrant day labor work center.
I should say NPeeR.
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