Seeking new a life, Burmese refugees find roaches and blight
Seeking a new life, Burmese refugees find cockroaches and burn Nge Moo Gary Porter was transported to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning from a leaky gas stove in his apartment Wilson Park Garden Apartments. Moo Nge Karen is a refugee from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, who immigrated to Milwaukee from a refugee camp in Thailand. Social agency pleads ignorance of landlord's past; he calls tenants 'primitive'Dozens of Burmese refugees who fled persecution in their homeland have landed in recent years in cockroach-infested Milwaukee apartments, some thick with the smell of leaking sewage and almost all unprotected by working smoke or carbon monoxide detectors.
Many of the refugees were placed in the squalid conditions by Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, which acknowledges it never conducted a background check on the complex's owner, Daniel Bruckner, a Fox Point lawyer.
State and city records reviewed by the Journal Sentinel show Bruckner faces hundreds of city building code violations and four city lawsuits, owes nearly a half-million dollars in delinquent property taxes and has seven felony convictions for importing child pornography.
Lutheran Social Services was unaware of Bruckner's code violations and legal troubles, said Natascha Malkemes, a spokeswoman for the agency.
"We should know these things," she conceded, adding,"We have our clients' best interests at heart for sure."
On Friday, the agency - which is paid federal dollars to settle refugees - released a statement saying, "The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has recently made our organization aware of litigation against and a criminal record of a landlord we have worked with in the past. Because of this development, Lutheran Social Services will immediately begin looking into ways to put procedures in place to apply background check standards on all of the landlords we work with."
In addition, the agency pledged to contact the refugees who rent from Bruckner and assist any who wish to move.
Bruckner placed the blame for most of his 443 building-code infractions at Wilson Park Garden Apartments on his tenants, especially the Burmese refugees.
"These are very primitive people," said Bruckner, 64, who charges them about $700 a month in rent. "When they come here, a lot of them don't even know how to flush a toilet. One of the first things they do is they go in the Dumpster and eat, OK? That's the type of people you have there.
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Many of the refugees living at Wilson Park Garden Apartments arrived in Wisconsin in 2008 and 2009. They came from refugee camps in Thailand, where about 152000 Burmese people now live, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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