RSSCity calls illegal immigrants sleeping or hanging out at Municipal Park a messy nuisance
Carolyn Hileman | August 30, 2007
James OsborneMcALLEN — Sprawled across a concrete picnic table at the center of the park, a group of young men recently arrived from Honduras and Nicaragua to share a beer and discuss where they might find a room for the night. The conversation drifts to the availability of work in New Orleans before a police car passes through the park’s parking lot, turning everyone silent. “They’re always coming in here and giving us trouble,” one man, who declined to give his name, said in Spanish. Over the last year, Municipal Park — located in central McAllen off 23rd Street — has become a haven for illegal immigrants.
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