Immigrants joining the ranks of NJ's homeless

[AlphaCentauri]

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — The national immigration debate has reached people on the farthest margins of society in New Jersey.

In long-term encampments from the woods of southern New Jersey to the congested northern end of the state, an increasing number of immigrant day laborers are joining the ranks of the homeless.

In northern New Jersey, more than 100 homeless immigrant day laborers were found to be camping out in a North Bergen graveyard. Authorities cleared out a homeless encampment beneath a highway overpass in Passaic that was divided into sections labeled "USA" and "Mexico."

In Lakewood, near the Jersey shore, authorities recently removed occupants of two homeless tent cities - known locally as "the people in the woods." The camps were set up next to each other - one primarily a "local" camp and another populated by Mexican day laborers.

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/245499.html

[YOY]

1. A combination of critical mass and the economy...

Had to be expected sooner or later. Solution won't be easy.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. we might be at the edge of an economic revolution