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May 15, 2007
Fairfax, VA Residents Find Illegal Immigration Impacts Their Home Values "Harry Gault doesn't think of the small ranch home next door as a hot-button "Open-borders liberal types, especially those quick to preach diversity and call anyone who disagrees a racist, don’t have my sympathy. I’m glad this is happening to you. I’m overjoyed that illegal aliens are ruining your neighborhoods and schools. I’m ecstatic that you have to worry about what those 20 'undocumented' men living next door might do to your daughters. I hope the mere thought keeps you awake at night," says LaShawn Barber. Comments
I would think that just about any call to have the health authorities or code enforcement alerted might do some good - unless their name is Gomez, Lopez or Garcia. Many people don't take into consideration the health effects putting 12 people constantly residing in a building made for 4 or 5 can do. It overstressed the sewage system, water system, more waste than the whole system can handle. They cook illegally and just having that many people living in filth is disgusting to say the least! Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on May 15, 2007 05:22 PM Men's median wages are frozen at 1973 levels, women are below men. That means that people can't afford high home values. The construction people use low wage workers to build homes, thus creating an oversupply for high priced homes. That means home values will stagnate for 35 years just like men's median wages have since 1973: http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf Do you want stagnate home prices for the next 30 years? Posted by: Old Atlantic on May 15, 2007 05:23 PM I live in one of those Fairfax County neighborhoods, and I see junk dumped by the curb on a regular basis in front of certain houses. Many new houses are being built and they tend to be about double the size of the original houses, which weren't that small to start with in some cases. It is ridiculous how big some of the new houses are. I don't know who is going to buy these houses, since the school district is only so-so. I am guessing they will be rented out, probably to multiple families. There are better school districts just a few miles away. We will probably want to move, but it will be expensive. We know someone in the neighborhood who is complaining quite vociferously about the same sort of situation described in the article. I hope this represents a sea change where liberals finally start waking up about what is going on. When you empower people to come here and work illegally, it shouldn't be too surprising when many of these people turn out to have contempt for zoning laws as well. Since it looks like there will be amnesty for illegal immigration, maybe the next step is to provide amnesty for homeowners who turn their homes into boarding houses. Just imagine all the PC arguments invoking the “American Dream.” Meanwhile, the liberal blogs like Huffington Post seem to want to pretend there is no such issue as immigration. Posted by: Hal K on May 15, 2007 05:58 PM Falling property values was one of the reason people didn't like negros moving into their neighborhoods 50 years ago. Posted by: Ralph on May 15, 2007 09:06 PM Good grief, this is a no-brainer, isn't it? They just pack them in like sardines when I have lived by them. And then there is that horrible music at all hours of the day and night, the drinking, the drugs, the abandoned cars, the parties. When I lived in the sanctuary city on the west coast, I would have them naked doing the humpty hump in front of my home. I would wake up to that horrible music, call the police who arrived as I was hosing them down so drunk they couldn't figure out what was happening to them. Posted by: jaded on May 15, 2007 09:49 PM And I thought it was just me:-). We lived in a nice middle class house in West Valley City Utah for over 20 years. During that time the State and local governments turned thier heads as thousdands of ILLEGAL ALIENS poured into the state drawn by reduced college costs for them and the geneous welfare benifits and the ability to vote, ECT The predominant church was getting new dues paying members and the taxpayers were footing the bill. The people next door were renting the house to one illegal couple who quickly became 16 people within months and the fights and broken cars in the front yard finially drove us out. They used to just throw trash out of the windows during warm weather and there was always dozens of empty beer cans around the property. The taxes kept going up and the home value keep going down. We moved to Northern Nevada and are watching the same thing happen here as the politicians are to PC or stupid to see where the gangs,drugs,crime and graffiti come from. The lead story in the Carson City Paper on Sunday was about a 18 year old Mexican who was a senior in High School who was in a big fight at school and they has to read the charges against him in court with a Mexican translator !!!!!! How the hell can you be a senior in high school and not understand English? God Help Us as a country. Posted by: R J REGAN on May 16, 2007 12:11 PM Ralph, Negroes, as you say, were American citizens. Shabbily treated, yes, but citizens nonetheless. It seems proponents of illegal immigration, like to bring up the Civil Rights movement and other things, and lump them with illegality, when there is really no comparison. Posted by: Born American on May 16, 2007 02:52 PM THIS IS HAPPENING IN ALOT OF TOWNS AND NEIGHBORHOODS... THEY ARE TURING INTO GARBAGE CANS AND LOCAL POLITICIANS DO NOTHING BECAUSE OF ALL THIS PC BULLS**T WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY! Posted by: American Me on May 16, 2007 03:10 PM I lived in a Hispanic neighborhood for 1 year in Los Angeles. We had a drive-by shooting of two innocent children two blocks away for gang initiation. Then, the house behind us had loud Mexican music at all hours of the night. There was no street parking because the neighborhood was packed, and there was always trash in the streets. The photos from just 20 years earlier look completely different than what the area was when I lived there. There were more stray animals and fights because one person's dog killed another person's cat in the street. We had our first break-in. I don't know if cheaper tomatoes is worth this kind of living. I moved out of that place to the west side, but then my property taxes on the west side got jacked up when the Latino population in LA raised property taxes to fix the over crowded schools. That bill cost me an additional $720 per year, on top of an already expensive 1.25% on a condominium that was close to a half-million dollars. I finally had enough and just sold my place and left LA. For the record, I'm a non-white legal immigrant who tried his best to sympathize with the other immigrants. I draw the line at sacrificing my quality of life to accomodate people who're breaking the laws. Posted by: Rod on May 16, 2007 03:41 PM Yeah, we already got the message a long time ago Ralph, anyone who does'nt think like progressives, or liberals, whatever the issue, is a "hater." Posted by: Bobby on May 16, 2007 03:53 PM If it wasn`t for our spineless useless politicians, illegal aliens wouldn`t be here in the first place too destroy neighborhoods. Remember that the next time you go and vote! Posted by: Independent Voter on May 16, 2007 05:12 PM ITS REAL SIMPLE Its called a single family residence city ordinance. Even almost all sanctuary cities have them and my guess, the rich Elite would fight tooth and nail if illegal alien crime infested their neighborhood with single family residence enforcement infractions. Do the Fascist police look the other way when its just the evil American Middle Class neighborhoods the single family ordinance infractions impact???? Posted by: Softwarengineer on May 16, 2007 05:47 PM Like South Florida the masses have degenerated the area from a tropical paradise to a 3rd world country. And worse yet our elected officials don't do anything about it other than argue. Instead of assimilating and contributing to local communities the illegals live like they did in their country, which reduces our quality of life. Wake up America!! Posted by: mike on May 16, 2007 06:55 PM This PC crap with destroy America as a nation. Our so-called leaders either don't care, are in the pocket of big business or are afraid of being called racist for taking a stand to defend America. You would think that with Mayor Barletta winning by the landslide that he did would be a clear sign that if you want the support of the people vote down amnesty and just enforce the federal law. Brian Posted by: Brian on May 17, 2007 12:41 PM |
political issue in this year's Fairfax County election or realize how frequently his complaint is heard throughout the region. 'I don't mind an Hispanic neighborhood,' said Gault, 73. 'But they've turned a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home into a nine-room boarding house,'" the Washington Post reports. "Long a source of tension in the suburbs, where high prices force many immigrants to pool financial resources and share housing, residential crowding has generated a surge of complaints in Fairfax, a county where one in four residents is foreign-born."