Migrants see lives improve in U.S. – Sun Valley, California – (kind of a strange headline for the content but worth reading) From: dailynews.com
Tagged: California, populationPosted on: July 15th, 2008
While a debate rages about whether immigration’s effects have been positive or negative, what is undeniable is the poverty and poor living conditions in which many Central American and Mexican immigrants find themselves.
“Sun Valley,” says Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who represents the area, “is ground zero for the county’s underserved and uninsured populations in the eastern San Fernando Valley.”
More than 70 percent of Sun Valley’s estimated 46,000 residents are Latino – and at least half are undocumented. They often fall through the bureaucratic cracks of census and city statistics, but make up the bulk of the one-in-five residents living in poverty in the area. “*
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