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Translations:

"Here in Home Gardens there's a lot of trash," Hernandez said in Spanish,...

We behave like we're still living in our home countries.


Some residents say they're not aware of the county code enforcement office tucked between taquerias and carnicerias on Magnolia Avenue.

The place is a trash heap and you'd never guess that a govt. office responsible for keeping it respectable is actually nearby.


"When we first started canvassing we got people running into their homes, closing the curtains and making it look like no one was home."

The criminals scattered when we arrived because they figured we were cops or ICE.


The heavily Latino area is home to many migrant workers and recent immigrants. About 9,500 people live in the densely populated area of about 1.08 square miles.

The neighborhood is Riverside's version of Panorama City.


The sewer system is overtaxed because it's not designed for the number of people tapping into it, Olivo said. Toilets sometimes run directly into the ground and cesspools accumulate.

If we're lucky, it'll only be a Typhoid or Cholera outbreak rather than Ebola.


Officers try to work with people instead of cite them.

There are two sets of rules. The one that has penalties and is enforced, is for citizens and legal residents only.


We want to improve the quality of life without creating any hardships.

We will never report obvious immigration violations to federal authorities, no matter how quickly it would resolve the problem we are paid by taxpayers to address.


Denise Bivalacqua raked leaves in her front yard across the street from a splotch of graffiti on a fence on Somerdale Street. Although she has lived in the area about 10 years, she was unaware that code enforcement had an office in the area or that they would clean up graffiti.

Code enforcement and the police don't do squat to illegals so, resultingly, this woman is forced to endure ghetto conditions.