| akash |
Posted
on 27-Aug-02 02:47 PM
Dear friends, we are not alone to be born and live in poverty. Developed country like the United States also feel "Pride in Poverty."
The dreams in Cameron Park are like that -- as modest and immediate and not quite reachable as the ramshackle roofs over people's heads. This is, according to the Census Bureau, the poorest place in the United States.
Home to about 6,000 of the poorest Mexican immigrants, it is one of the biggest and oldest of about 1,800 colonias, shabby, unplanned, scantily regulated conglomerations of shacks, trailers and tumbledown houses that dot the U.S.-Mexico border, most of them in Texas. But in the last half-decade or so, a new feature has gained a tentative toehold in Cameron Park and some other colonias amid the familiar terrain of decrepit housing, rusted-out cars, inadequate sewers and terrible roads.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57859-2002Aug24.html
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