SNAPSHOT
OF THE POLITICS OF GREED
Most of
the 90,000 children who have cross the border illegally this year
will be found by ICE agents on the streets of the colonias.
That's a
figure that has increased dramatically from 2011 – 28,000 – and
2013, with about 40,000.
Half a
million people live on the Texas-Mexican border in squalid and
unsanitary conditions in 2,294 subdivisions called colonias -
developments platted and approved by Commissioners
Courts without even the most basic provisions for sewage, water, and
storm drainage.
Most of
these are located in flood plains unsuitable for building, areas
which have no natural drainage, where raw sewage mixes with runoff to
choke creeks and ditches, then flow into the Rio Grande, where border
towns get their drinking water.
They are
breeding grounds for disease. According to Texas Department of Health
reports,
“hepatitis A, salmonellosis, dysentery, cholera and other diseases
occur at much higher rates in colonias than in Texas as a whole.
Tuberculosis is also a common health threat, occurring almost twice
as frequently along the border...”
The
homeowners cross into America illegally in their quest for work, buy
lots in these communities, but receive no guarantee of clear title as
they make payments in owner-financed schemes.
They
build their shacks piecemeal, as funds become available to build on
with makeshift materials. The result is that building inspectors
refuse to sign off on the structures in approval of grant and loan
programs that would allow them to be improved with plumbing and sewer
services. The people haul their water in 55-gallon drums, or pay
tanker truck drivers to fill 2,500-gallon tanks. The effluent of
their bathrooms? Who knows. There are everything from outhouses to
septic tanks that don't drain into lateral lines.
Here's
a clue. When you see a pile of toilet paper on the floor next to a
commode, you are looking at a place where undocumented aliens who
have crossed the border illegally go to relieve themselves. They are
conditioned to do so because the sewer systems they use in Mexico and
on the border will not accept toilet paper. They burn it, but if
there's no receptacle in which to place it, they just throw it on the
floor…
To read more, follow this link:
http://radiolegendary.com/2014/06/balancing-oil-boom-budget-on-the-border/
http://radiolegendary.com/2014/06/balancing-oil-boom-budget-on-the-border/
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