I've spent the past 40+ years of my life in New England. I attended public schools and lived on campus while at college in Boston. During my many decades here I've experienced the social / economic changes first hand as my hometown was overrun with illegals who are so bold that they mock us and have zero regard for the rules. These people do 90% construction and roofing. It's easy to identify them since they drive "company" vans with 12-16 ladders and a couple wheelbarrows strapped to the roof to and from each job site. The women are usually 5 foot nothing, long dark hair and push their baby carriages all over downtown.

The hospitals are overrun and at risk of maintaining operating costs, the schools don't have enough ESL teachers and the legal student GPA's naturally fall off a cliff over time. They keep chickens illegally inside their basements & apartments, often spreading scabies, lice and tuberculous and live in close quarters with triple the allowed occupancy.

I once witness a hit and run returning home from work. The guy sped off and after being sure the victims were unharmed, I took off to chase down the offender. Got a clear description of his car, plate and appearance. He was begging me through broken English to let him go. Problem is, it doesn't really matter since they don't bother to register or insure their crappy cars, so when they get in a wreck bad enough to disable their car, they just run off into the woods.

The same happened to my good buddy who saw an illegal so drunk that the guy tore the front wheel off his car with a telephone pole and then abandoned the car in the middle of the overpass to flee the scene on foot. Only occasionally do they get caught and face the repercussions.

Enough of the crappy backstory, on to the good stuff!

My good friend texts me a couple days ago. The conversation goes like this:

Friend - It's the weirdest thing, downtown is EMPTY.

Me (trying to be cute) - Like all the illegals are heading home?

Friend - Yeap, It's all empty. No traffic on Main St. Nobody walking downtown. Nobody at the laundromat. It's very strange. Not a lot of trucks on South St with the ladders.

Me - Holy 💩I was only half joking. Where the hell did they go?

Friend - I think they're all in hiding. I have a friend from the Mexican Cantina, who works with the church and she was holding a meeting tonight with people who are concerned about ICE. She's afraid nobody is going to show up. She was going to translate for them their concerns about getting captured. I drove by the church and there was not a lot of people there.

Me - Wow, that's amazing. I don't want anyone to get hurt, but the illegals did cut the line before all the folks that did it the right way.

I have another friend that works for a local labor union office. She says they are getting calls looking for skilled people to help with the on-going construction jobs. Lots of their regular workers haven't been showing up and it's causing delays.

Keep your chin up Frens, things are changing, the pendulum is changing directions.

WWG1WGA - NCSWIC