Bethlehem. Reading and Lancasteras well as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Pat Meehan. to get one of the six recent AntiGang Initiative grants given by the Department of Justice. This area. called the Route 222 Corridor. was the only nonmetropolitan area to receive one of the $2.5 million grants to combat growing criminal activity in part because of illegal immigrants. However. I raise this issue here because U.S. Attorney Meehans letter explains this issue very succinctly. He stated "[e]ach city is seeing extensive Latino relocation to its poorer neighborhoods and housing projects. Once largely Puerto Rican. the minority populations are increasingly from Central America.
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Associating Latino relocation with poorer neighborhoods and housing projects.