The tenants charge that they were steered into buildings occupied by illegal immigrants who were too afraid about their legal status to complain about decrepit conditions, according to Michael M. Hethmon, a lawyer for the Reform Law Institute.
Mr. Soucek admitted throwing a rocket into the front window of the house, which was selected "in the belief it was occupied by illegal Mexican aliens," the papers said.
In Costa Rica, for example, 49percentt of the area of indigenous reserves is occupied by illegal settlers; in particular reserves, as much as 85percentt is settled by outsiders (Ardito, 1996).
"The space which illegal immigrants occupy is a negative space.
In New York City, illegal immigrants occupy about a fifth of the 1,389 beds in the public nursing home on Roosevelt Island.
"It is technically illegal to occupy a building when there is no certificate of occupancy," said Kelly Magee, the Buildings Department's spokeswoman.
Meanwhile, residents and attendants who work in the building say illegal tenants occupy other apartments, and some of them constantly use and deal drugs.
The slum lord and the sheer numbers of these "united" slum dwellers ensures that they can do all this with impunity.* Even when one area gets cleared, and the squatters resettled, another wave of illegal settlers occupy the lands that were once vacated.
"This is all about the convenience of 8,000 illegal settlers to occupy the Gaza Strip at the expense of 1.2 million Palestinians, at the expense of the road map," said Michael Tarazi, a legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In particular, sit-in strikes--in which employees occupy the workspace--are illegal.
