Because it is 'big money'? Or just because it is 'big power'?
Is it because they get away with it?
Not even law enforcement, ICE, FBI, DEA, senators, lawmakers nor prosecutors on multiple levels have gained any ground on alleged visa abuses, alleged drug use in employee ranks and on slopes, immigration laws disregarded in their entirety and workers everywhere that are literally treated like chattel and kept in near poverty with the old game of 'owing their souls to the company store' (or at least in debt for life for their visa...).
Why is an article like this one so common place, that an employer like Warren Klug with the reputation among the working class as being one of the worst in his poor treatment of immigrant workers, is even allowed to go to print?
The illegals that can read English are likely outraged to listen to this tone of ACRA, the Skico, Klug and others as being 'generous', 'kind', 'humane' and magnminous as they ride in on white horses to 'save the immigrant resort workers'.
When you're nothing but poverty kept labor, treated like chattel and scrubbing toilets to hold that pleasurable experience of such treatment....it's pretty darn tough to show any respect at all to political rhetoric like this.
Go for truly humane reform. Pay living wages to everyone, e-verify and uphold all immigration laws and show some respect to the workers who actually make all the wheels turn in Aspen and the Valley.
After all, it will only cost you some of the greed shaved off your outrageously profitable bottom lines.
Andrew Travers:
"The board of the Aspen Chamber Resort Association (ACRA) voted unanimously Tuesday to support Colorado-based immigration reform efforts.
Business leaders agreed to support “The Colorado Compact,” a statewide effort led by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet to craft federal immigration reform. It had already drawn support from Gov. John Hickenlooper, other business organizations, educators, farmers and law enforcement officials.
The short document states Colorado law enforcement officials should focus on criminal activity, not enforcing civil immigration laws, among other principles. It calls for federal solutions to the immigration problem, to strengthen border security and simultaneously allow immigrants to continue working. It also specifically calls for policies that will not break up families through deportation.
“Immigrants are integrated into communities across Colorado,” the current draft of the compact reads. “We must adopt a humane approach to this reality, reflecting our unique culture, history and spirit of inclusion. The way we treat immigrants will say more about us as a free society and less about our immigrant neighbors.”
Outgoing ACRA Chairman Warren Klug, in recent years, has led the local business community’s call for federal legislation that would allow undocumented workers to gain a legal working status. He has lobbied Colorado’s congressional delegation and met with White House staffers on the issue.
Klug has championed immigration reform on a local, state and national level in recent years. He officially finished his term as chairman of the board of the chamber Tuesday, with Gant general manager Donnie Lee taking his place...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetic pursuit and tracking of patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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April 3, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Daily News "Homeless group aims to reform ‘broken’ local housing rules"
"They are treated like chattel."
Yes, they most certainly are. Think about that angle of the current conversations on "deed-restricted" land use codes, "affordable" housing and "employee housing" from the construction, development, government and surrounding neighborhoods end.
"Anonymous" tips, indeed. Who benefits the most if those housing units go empty?
Great question.
Andrw Travers:
"The Regional Homeless Coalition, which focuses on homelessness from Aspen to Parachute, addressed the issue briefly Monday at its biannual meeting. Members discussed whether the housing authority may be contributing to homelessness in the Aspen area.
Aspen- and Pitkin County-based members of the group will meet again next week, in the hopes of formulating specific proposals for changes in the housing authority rules.
“I think we can articulate what our concerns are and productively move them forward to APCHA and the city and the county,” said Nan Sundeen, Pitkin County’s director of health and human services.
The Aspen City Council and Pitkin County commissioners oversee the housing rules, which are then administered by APCHA.
In February, the housing authority served Truscott resident Susan Johnson with an eviction notice for not being employed, and later upheld the eviction. In the second case, against Heidi Mines, who owns an APCHA home on East Hopkins Avenue, the board opted last month to grant a four-month eviction delay to give her time to find a job.
Both cases arose from anonymous tips to APCHA, which enforces compliance with housing rules through complaints. To qualify for local government affordable housing, residents must work a minimum of 29 hours per week in Pitkin County.
“That’s probably why people choose to break them, because the rules are broken,” said Vince Savage, director of the Aspen Homeless Shelter.
Savage expressed frustration with the housing rules and their narrow focus on housing employees.
“Is it a community for rich people and people willing to work 29 hours a week to serve them? Or is this a place that people can come to live?” Savage asked the group.
He compared the housing system to a college campus, where one can’t keep housing without staying in school, and characterized it as an exploitative 21st century feudalism.
“They’re treated like chattel,” Savage said of APCHA tenants......"
(Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Yes, they most certainly are. Think about that angle of the current conversations on "deed-restricted" land use codes, "affordable" housing and "employee housing" from the construction, development, government and surrounding neighborhoods end.
"Anonymous" tips, indeed. Who benefits the most if those housing units go empty?
Great question.
Andrw Travers:
"The Regional Homeless Coalition, which focuses on homelessness from Aspen to Parachute, addressed the issue briefly Monday at its biannual meeting. Members discussed whether the housing authority may be contributing to homelessness in the Aspen area.
Aspen- and Pitkin County-based members of the group will meet again next week, in the hopes of formulating specific proposals for changes in the housing authority rules.
“I think we can articulate what our concerns are and productively move them forward to APCHA and the city and the county,” said Nan Sundeen, Pitkin County’s director of health and human services.
The Aspen City Council and Pitkin County commissioners oversee the housing rules, which are then administered by APCHA.
In February, the housing authority served Truscott resident Susan Johnson with an eviction notice for not being employed, and later upheld the eviction. In the second case, against Heidi Mines, who owns an APCHA home on East Hopkins Avenue, the board opted last month to grant a four-month eviction delay to give her time to find a job.
Both cases arose from anonymous tips to APCHA, which enforces compliance with housing rules through complaints. To qualify for local government affordable housing, residents must work a minimum of 29 hours per week in Pitkin County.
“That’s probably why people choose to break them, because the rules are broken,” said Vince Savage, director of the Aspen Homeless Shelter.
Savage expressed frustration with the housing rules and their narrow focus on housing employees.
“Is it a community for rich people and people willing to work 29 hours a week to serve them? Or is this a place that people can come to live?” Savage asked the group.
He compared the housing system to a college campus, where one can’t keep housing without staying in school, and characterized it as an exploitative 21st century feudalism.
“They’re treated like chattel,” Savage said of APCHA tenants......"
(Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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