Where and how are they getting the cars? Is the government giving them the cars to?
To explain this...a certain number of small industries exist in the area, and over the past decade with escalating drug-use...like most middle-classed communities in the US...they are hard-pressed to find ‘decent’ labor.
So this ‘deal’ was cranked up, with local Republican political support (maybe they didn’t grasp how many were involved), but this Haitian ‘door-way’ would open. Contracts were signed and the Haitians had regular jobs. So they went to banks and used-car lots...getting loans. If you asked any of the people involved...they were probably Republicans.
I would imagine at the very beginning...the talk was probably a group of 3,000...but no one ever bothered to shut the door-way. Unemployment rate for the area? Near 4.5-percent. How many of the 20,000 are employed? Unknown...no one counts this kind of data. If you asked anyone from the state or federal folks....how much welfare funding is issued monthly to them...there’s to be total silence (no idea).