Following an overdose death in northwest Indiana, authorities say 13 undocumented immigrants, most of them children, were reportedly living in the basement of a Hammond apartment.
Officers from the Hammond Police Department were called to investigate the death of a resident of an apartment complex. But during the investigation, officers found a number of immigrants living illegally in the building’s basement, WGN-TV reported. report.
Officers entered a small, cluttered room where they found 13 illegal immigrants from Venezuela, including nine children between 2 months and 14 years old, two women, and two men. I discovered that.
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Police said authorities also noted a number of code violations at the residence, including problems with overloaded extension cords, fire hazards, inadequate egress and not enough windows.
Illegal immigrants were given 10 days to vacate the premises, and the basement was declared a no-occupancy zone.
Kelly Carney, director of the Hammond Inspection Service, said: “Illegal basement apartments of this type expose people to extreme risk and danger, and their owners are often used by marginalized people or those without the means to find other suitable housing. “They often prey on people,” he said.
Neighbors told the media that they had never seen anyone outside their homes and had no idea there were so many people illegally staying in the building.
Further investigation revealed that local clergy had arranged illegal settlements for the migrants. The priest’s identity has not been made public and he has not been charged with any crime at this time.
Still, Hammond Mayor Thomas M. McDermott Jr. insisted on holding the clergy who hid illegal immigrants in the building’s basements accountable.
“The City of Hammond has no tolerance for this type of illegal and criminal activity. [they have] They exposed people, including children, to serious harm,” McDermott exclaimed.
It has not yet been reported what the migrants will do, where they will go, and whether the city plans to take care of them.
Hammond, Indiana, is not the only city where large numbers of undocumented immigrants have been found crammed into small spaces in squalid living conditions.
In March, New York City building inspectors discovered an illegal immigrant home with about 70 immigrants living in the cramped basement of a furniture store in Queens.
More than 80 migrants, most of them Senegalese, were found taking turns sleeping in a cramped basement in New York City. https://t.co/MuE5EfXW7i pic.twitter.com/BxarEbsfZB
— New York Post (@nypost) February 27, 2024
An investigation revealed that the building’s owner, a man named Ebou Saar, himself an immigrant, was charging undocumented residents $300 a month.
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