[Oldexpat]

It was and is amazing to me that the county tolerates these squater camps while at the same time enforcing expensive permits and rules on legal citizens. All this for cheap cabbage? Importing the worst of a third world country?
Talk radio and some TV finally put a stop to this camp..what about the others?

[loungitude]

"My children are studying, and they need pencils. They don't have enough money," he said. Ramirez makes $6.75 an hour plucking tomatoes six days a week, and sends two-thirds of his wages to his family while he sleeps under a tarp tied to trees.
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Studying to violate the U.S. border like dad did?
Let's say a legitimate citizen of this country set up camp and was enjoying the outdoors. He or she would be run out of there in a minute, likely with a costly citation.

[DumpsterDiver]

It was and is amazing to me that the county tolerates these squater camps while at the same time enforcing expensive permits and rules on legal citizens.

It is rather mind-numbing, isn't it. I don't remember if the city of San Diego ever razed this encampment in 2003 or not.

Migrant camps to be razed near Rancho Penasquitos
December 24, 2003

Though many migrant workers did not know it this week, city workers are preparing to evict them and raze their makeshift camps at McGonigle Canyon near Rancho Penasquitos.

San Diego police Officer Boris Martinez, the department's migrant liaison officer, said Tuesday that there have been complaints from neighbors about people living in the canyon. Martinez said he has notified Mexican Consul officials about the forthcoming evictions.

Although the date has not been set, Martinez said the men would be notified in writing and will be given about a week to move out of the camps. The city will then have the camps razed and removed, he said.

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McGonigle Canyon, which falls within the jurisdiction of the city of San Diego, has been home to migrant workers over decades.

In the late 1980s, entire families lived in holes dug in the ground or shacks made out of wood and plastic tarp. In the mid-1990s, most of the families were moved out of the camps and into apartments by Community Housing Works, then called Community Housing of North County, an Escondido-based, nonprofit housing developer.

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