Immigration Talk with Mayor Mark D. Boughton

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to have the chance to listen to a politician really speak about is actions in his community.  His name is Mark D. Boughton and he is the proud mayor of Danbury, Connecticut.  As I was eating a nice pizza lunch, compliments of Wabash, I was enriched in the theories on how illegal immigration is being handled in his city.  In Danbury, as Mayor Boughton described, there is a problem with illegal immigrants and over-crowding in this quiet little city.  Of the 85,000 people that live within city limits roughly 1/6 are illegal immigrants.  There have been an influx of South American Immigrants moving into this city.  There are also 49 different first languages spoken in the high school alone.  The nickname of this city is "The Gateway to New England," but recently it has been the Gateway to the United States for many of these immigrants. With the massive amount of immigrants comes a massive amount of different traditions.  For example, in Danbury there is a very large population of Ecuadorian people.  The national sport of these Ecuadorians is volleyball.  So they have volleyball matches in their yards.  This may seem harmless, but the matches attract large crowds of a few hundred people and this brings trouble.  At these matches, Mayor Boughton explained, one can find: illegal gambling, drugs, underage drinking etc..  Mainly things get out of hand.  The over crowding of the city is a big problem and parties like this are examples why.  So to stop the illegal immigration into the city the mayor has come up with a plan.  He has joined his police force with the I.C.E. force to remove any illegal immigrants that come about.  He doesn't want to search for them because he knows this is a type of racial profiling, and he doesn't want this at all.  I agree with his plans to search everyone that lives in the community through traffic stops and such, and not go door to door.  I just hope that it will solve and problems the city may have without disrespecting anyone.  I think that this is a fair way to do this and it is a sticky situation any way you look at it.  All I have to say is good luck Mayor Boughton, and thanks for lunch.