Posted on 11/04/2007 6:11:06 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
DALTON, Ga. -- Known by many as "Mexico Chiquito," or Little Mexico, the Whispering Pines mobile home neighborhood often is the first place immigrants live when they arrive in the United States, according to residents.
"I found this place because some cousins were living here already," Manuel Mendiola, a nine-year resident, said in Spanish. "But it's not the same as how one would live in Mexico; over there one would have his own house."
Saul Peinado, 29, who's been living in the neighborhood just outside Dalton for 19 years, said when he arrived there weren't many Hispanic residents, but eventually that started to change.
"When we first got here, there were only two Hispanic families including us, but then as a white family would move out, a Hispanic family would move in," he said in Spanish.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics made up about 40 percent of the population in Dalton and nearly 30 percent of the population of Whitfield County in 2000. At Whispering Pines, which has about 150 households, many residents are drawn by friends or family who already have made a home in the neighborhood.
"Most people come here first because a relative or friend already lives here, but most of us would want to have something better in the future, maybe out own home," resident José Arredondo said in Spanish.
Residents pay $240 per month for a lot and between $400 and $500 a month for the mobile home, depending on whether they're renting or buying, Mr. Mendiola said.
About 2:30 p.m. every weekday, two school buses drive through Bay Drive and drop off neighborhood children. After school, children stay outside to play while their parents talk to each other on their porches. Mexican music plays from inside most of the houses, and during the day clothes hang outside to dry next to a few trampolines.
Gabriela González, who lived in the neighborhood for five years, said in Spanish that one of the good things about "Mexico Chiquito" is that there are a lot of friends for children to play with, but they have to be careful about cars driving too fast.
Some residents said there was an accident earlier this year in which a car ran over a 2-year-old girl, prompting additional speed bumps on the main street. Although residents said they consider the neighborhood calm, they complain about loud music, especially on the weekends.
Judy Woods, the only non-Hispanic resident on the street, has lived in Whispering Pines for 29 years. She said that during the weekend the street is "seriously like an interstate."
"My neighbors are great, no one bothers me, but it's just the loud music," she said.
There have been 54 calls made to the police this year from the neighborhood, the majority complaints about loud music and 911 hang-up calls, said Lt. Nancy Chadwick of the Whitfield County Sheriff's Department.
Some residents say "Mexico Chiquito" feels just like home since most people speak Spanish, and in some houses there are even signs advertising "atole y buñuelos," a Mexican drink and dessert, just like in Mexico.
E-mail Perla Trevizo at ptrevizo@timesfreepress.com
I am wondering the same thing. Where is ICE and isn’t it their job to round up these illegals?
Stories like this one make such a mockery of our laws. You got illegal aliens giving their names and addresses yet ICE acts as if this is still 5 years ago. People want the laws enforced.
I know. What exactly are they doing?
Dalton is like Miami but with Mexicans instead of Cubans. You can’t go there without speaking Spanish. I have family there and they are tired of not getting jobs at the carpet factories because of all the illegals.
Libertarian votes don’t “help us kick the decadent, depraved, self-serving, mendacious, dishonest, anti-American Democrats out of office.” They help elect Democrats.
Making excuses that they don't have the resources or they've got higher priorities. That's all we ever hear from them as the invasion goes on unabated.
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Georgia’s doing just fine on this front, thank you very much.
We enacted one of the strictest anti-illegal plans in the country this year.
Can you guarantee your state doesn’t have ANY pockets of illegals?
We have an apartment complex up here called Whispering Pines. Everybody just calls it Whispering Crimes.
Very bad idea!
How about the the decadent, depraved, self-serving, mendacious, dishonest, anti-American Republicans and Libertarians?
Are they okay because they have an R or L by their name?
Judy Woods, the only non-Hispanic resident on the street, has lived in Whispering Pines for 29 years. She said that during the weekend the street is "seriously like an interstate." ... "My neighbors are great, no one bothers me, but it's just the loud music," she said.
Oh yeah Judy, "great neighbors", wanna bet. You can be nice as pie to them, treat them like friends and even go out of your way to help them --- but just wait.
One day you'll come home from work or the store and find your "great neighbors" have broke into your house, ransacked the place, and your "great neighbors" have stolen every dam thing of value you own --- just like the ^%$%^ers did to my mother.These 'people' are nothing but animals, rabid animals, and should be treated accordingly.And Judy, your "great neighbors" will do this in freaking broad daylight. But surprisingly (sarc) none of your "great neighbors" will have any idea of who could have done it, as they heard nothing and saw no one even near your house.
Everone Should Call ICE and report the location.
Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park 1443 Bay Drive, Dalton, GA 30721 (706) 226-4939
Of course it is. They are convinced that the vast majority of these immigrants will vote Democrat--and so am I. That's why I am opposed to illegal immigration.
But don't refer to these Leftists as "liberals". There's nothing liberal about them.
We--who believe in liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, the free exchange of ideas--are liberal.
Those decadent, totalitarian, Marxist, anti-American Leftists who love to refer to themselves as "liberals" are the opposite. It's Orwellian newspeak, like "love is hate", "freedom is slavery", "love is hate".
I know. That's why I consistently vote Republican.
I am a one-issue voter: Defeat the Democrats. Anything else is of relatively minor importance.
This sort of thing is not limited to Georgia and trailer parks:
“Mountain Meadows School
Moorpark, CA
In honor of the Winter Holidays, our school had a Singing Program for the parents. They sang about Christmas and Hanukkah. In the classroom we “studied” both of these winter holidays and Las Posadas which is a reenactment of Joseph and Mary’s procession to Bethlehem when she was nearly ready to have the baby Jesus.
Las Posadas
The celebration of the Christmas “Posadas” began many years ago in Mexico and other Latin American countries. It is the way in which the people remember the birth of the Christ Child. On the evenings, from December 16th through December 23rd, a group of people representing the pilgrims Joseph and Mary (who is riding a burro and about ready to give birth) go door to door looking for lodging in the “Inn.”
The Posadas go like this:
Pilgrims knock on the door of a house and say: In the name of heaven, we beg lodging, my beloved wife is weary.
From inside people answer: This is no Inn. Go Away! We are not open. We are afraid of thieves.
The Pilgrims sing: We are so tired. We have come from Nazareth. Please open. My beloved wife is weary.
From inside people answer: Please go away and stop bothering us, or the master may come and drive you out with sticks.
The Pilgrims say: My beloved wife is Mary, Queen of Heaven. She will be the mother of the Holy Child.
The Door opens and the[n] sic everyone enjoys the traditional food of Buñuelos and drink the chocolate drink Atole”
No. Of course not. Obviously they are as vile as the decadent, depraved, self-serving, mendacious, dishonest, anti-American Democrats.
But there are far fewer of them, and they make up a far smaller percentage of the Republican and Libertarian Parties, respectively.
On the other hand, the entire Democrat Party leadership and the entire leadership of the Left in general consist of such as this. Many are sociopaths. The rest of the Left--and its political machine, the Democrat Party--consists of morons, who are incapable of conprehending the nature of those whom they follow.
Dalton used to be known for it’s carpets.
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