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For those of you not from south Sac,
There is a swelling population of foreign born men standing on the streets surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and 47th avenue. Saturday there were in excess of 200 of them loitering there. This has not been a good influence on this neighborhood as the streets are littered with daily leftover goods wrappers and the living quarters have a daily display of trash piles, broken cars, refrigerators etc. To add to this, there are many spray painted gang markings evident everywhere. The laborers are also attracting nuisance vendors who appear to be catering to them illegally. In addition, the laborers are contributing to the delinquency of businesses who are becoming less and less conconcerned about competing unfairly in the marketplace by hiring under the table.
My attempts to document this with pictures and video tape were met with name calling, hand gestures of a disrespectful nature, and small objects being thrown at me.
I'd like to encourage everyone living in this area to come forward and help oppose this bit of unfairness by joining me in the employment of different tactics which will curtail the growing problems there. The County of Sacramento is the responsible entity, and they are now working towards legitimizing this whole enterprise and moving it to an old house down the street, right across from a park meant for 6 year old kids.
I'll post some pictures here later so those out of the area can get a taste of it.
There is a swelling population of foreign born men standing on the streets surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and 47th avenue. Saturday there were in excess of 200 of them loitering there. This has not been a good influence on this neighborhood as the streets are littered with daily leftover goods wrappers and the living quarters have a daily display of trash piles, broken cars, refrigerators etc. To add to this, there are many spray painted gang markings evident everywhere. The laborers are also attracting nuisance vendors who appear to be catering to them illegally. In addition, the laborers are contributing to the delinquency of businesses who are becoming less and less conconcerned about competing unfairly in the marketplace by hiring under the table.
My attempts to document this with pictures and video tape were met with name calling, hand gestures of a disrespectful nature, and small objects being thrown at me.
I'd like to encourage everyone living in this area to come forward and help oppose this bit of unfairness by joining me in the employment of different tactics which will curtail the growing problems there. The County of Sacramento is the responsible entity, and they are now working towards legitimizing this whole enterprise and moving it to an old house down the street, right across from a park meant for 6 year old kids.
I'll post some pictures here later so those out of the area can get a taste of it.
FBIS Administrator's edit 6-8-09:
One of the entities that many of the pictures on this thread were hosted on has recently closed and went off line. therefore, you will find this thread has many blank posts where pictures were previously, as well as links to videos leading nowhere. The original poster is hoping to rehost the links and pictures on a different service, and we will be working to replace the links as that happens.
One of the entities that many of the pictures on this thread were hosted on has recently closed and went off line. therefore, you will find this thread has many blank posts where pictures were previously, as well as links to videos leading nowhere. The original poster is hoping to rehost the links and pictures on a different service, and we will be working to replace the links as that happens.
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