I'm sorry, let me restate that. You're right, I shouldn't lump them all together. There are a lot of hispanic communities around here, but this one in particular is full of people who come right from Mexico, who are living in small apartments with sometimes 10+ people living in a 2-bedroom. I only know this because I have a friend who does apartment managing, and she had been working in that area for her employer on a temporary basis. She had horrible problems with people who were forging SSN's on applications and already had family members living in those apartments, having more people living in them than they were approved for, people who would ask her for work and payment under the table for a lot of things because they were ineligible to work legally. I guess the managers they had hired previously were sympathetic to their issues and were overlooking the problems that too many people were living there, and illegal application processes, and my friend had a heck of a time getting things straightened out and separating the people who were supposed to be there from the people who weren't. She knew some Spanish but she still had troubles understanding them a lot of the time. Again, it hasn't really affected me and I haven't really taken sides, it was just amazing, the lack of traffic this morning to and from work. No idea if it's really to do with the "Day without Immigrants," but it's the only difference I noticed today. I just thought maybe it had to do with those people. I admittedly don't know enough about the immigration system or the issues going on to take a side, I was just commenting on the situation. I apologize! Please tell me whatever you know about it, if you have a comment to make, I'd love to hear more from someone who knows more than I do!
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Date: 2006-05-02 02:00 am (UTC)Again, it hasn't really affected me and I haven't really taken sides, it was just amazing, the lack of traffic this morning to and from work. No idea if it's really to do with the "Day without Immigrants," but it's the only difference I noticed today. I just thought maybe it had to do with those people. I admittedly don't know enough about the immigration system or the issues going on to take a side, I was just commenting on the situation. I apologize! Please tell me whatever you know about it, if you have a comment to make, I'd love to hear more from someone who knows more than I do!