DENVER (KDVR) — The FOX31 Problem Solvers are taking viewer concerns to the city about an increase of people crowding the medians to squeegee cars around the Denver metro.
Coming up on Colorado Boulevard and Colfax Avenue, you’re stopping for a red one second, and in the next, you may get a smile of suds on your windshield.
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Drivers like Xavier Hill noticed the situation as dozens of people crowded the intersection with squeegees on Wednesday.
“I actually read the note from one of the guys — it said he was from Venezuela, it said his name. It seems like they’re just, I guess, kind of put up here, placed up here, and they don’t have anywhere to go,” Hill said.
“They don’t have any way to do anything or any way to, I guess, earn money,” with jobs often requiring things like identification and background checks, Hill said.
Sarah Parady, Denver City Council member at large, spoke to FOX31 about the situation.
“It’s a lot of young families and people that had every conceivable background coming from Venezuela, but people that are professionals,” Parady said. “I’ve talked to so many health care professionals while I’m thinking, my God, if these people could work. We have such a shortage of providers … probably hundreds of nurses that we could hire, for example, who would be fully qualified.”