'Underground town' of migrants found in Moscow

[Blue_Tires]

Source: BBC

Police in Moscow have discovered what they are calling an "underground town" housing illegal immigrants from Central Asia in a Soviet-era bomb shelter in the west of the city.

The discovery was made by police and agents from the FSB security agency and Federal Migration Service.

The underground area was guarded by a four-metre-high <13 feet> concrete wall and barbed wire, said Andrei Mishel of the Russia's ministry of the interior.

It housed 110 men and women.

"The living areas were fitted with bathrooms, bedrooms and even prayer rooms," Mr Mishal added.

Similar subterranean living quarters were also uncovered in February under an official delegation room in the capital's Kievsky railway station. The people found there were also described as illegal immigrants.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13082606

[Donnachaidh]

1. And I predict we'll be seeing the same sort of establishments here soon

Thanks to the jobless recovery. :eyes:

[Bluenorthwest]

7. They've existed for years.

A documentary from 2000...Dark Days..http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/

[Donnachaidh]

8. oh yeah -- I've seen that!

But when we start seeing them everywhere -- will it be too late for us?

[hatrack]

9. And in Las Vegas, too

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97800190

[SnakeEyes]

12. Or Galt's Gulch is coming!

:rofl:

[WatsonT]

13. Why?

We make negligible efforts to control illegal immigration here.

They will just live in houses like everyone else, above ground.

[Donnachaidh]

14. uhh dear -- where do you think all those foreclosed on AMERICANS are going?

We have CITIZENS living in tent cities NOW.

[WatsonT]

15. Yes, above ground

not in underground morlock type communities.

[snooper2]

2. Really, blades and needles?

"According to official accounts, the migrants living in the underground town were working on producing blades and needles for sewing machines."


I'm pretty sure there's a machine out there that can put those out by the 10's of thousands a day :eyes:

[Blue_Tires]

4. I think they were using those types of machines

not sure if they lived underground and went up to the abandoned factory every day to work, of if the machines were put undergound...

[Taverner]

3. And so the good thing to do is throw them all out in the cold, right?

Jeez... :wtf:

[valerief]

5. WWAD? What would America do? The same. Of course, they'd beat them first. nt

[Taverner]

6. Yes, definitely

There is a serious shortage of empathy these days, and that will come back to bite us

[Blue_Tires]

10. "Mr. President! We must now allow an underground migrant shelter gap!!"

(applause)

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. Morlocks!

[formercia]

16. The Mole People of Moscow

like the ones living in NY subway tunnels.