FoodTruckNation

Brilliantly put. It's been about a week since I read the article but I loved the part where it says until you're ready to pay $40 for a pork chop, stop deluding yourselves into thinking your food can be coddled to the degree you'd like. It just isn't economically possible.

For all I know (and for all you know) every single one of them is perfectly legal. It's not my job or concern to check their immigration status, any more than it is to check yours. They are my neighbors and entire families should not be living in a single room. I'd like to assist them if I can. Please post the rest of whatever you have to say in T_D as I'm sure this gentleman doesn't value you in his AMA.

My wife is a school teacher (early childhood) and we've found it remarkable and disturbing how many families with children are living these days in pay-by-the-week motels. All these places are regular school bus stops. They seem to be primarily two-parent Hispanic families who are recent immigrants--though definitely not all.

Could you possibly step through McKinney-Vento and what rights these families might have that could get them into better housing? Including what documentation they would have to produce. Many of them are suspicious of officials, especially now probably. But they trust my wife and they trust her principal. FWIW a lot of them seem to spend summers in Mexico, they don't reside year round, I don't know if that makes any difference.