WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Independent Women Features (IW Features), the grassroots storytelling and original journalism arm of Independent Women, is sharing the story of Cathy Lindberg Jarosz as a part of its “Collateral Damage” series, which highlights the effects of bad border policies that ripple through American communities.
Sarah Wilder, contributor for IW Features, spoke with Cathy Lindberg Jarosz about her years-long legal battle after alleged illegal aliens squatted in her Florida home for months.
The battle began when Jarosz entrusted her new home to a recommended Florida contractor while she traveled for the summer, hoping to return to a renovated, beautiful home.
However, when she returned, she did not even recognize the property as it had been neglected and trashed.
In her interview with IW Features, Cathy Linberg Jarosz said:
“I drive to the house and see all this trash and debris and stuff, bad landscaping – really no landscaping on this house. I drive by it and I go, ‘God, where’s my house? You know, it was a new house. So I [went] back and forth, trying to look for my house number, and I realized that thing is mine!”
She described the deplorable “crack house” condition of her home, saying it had been ransacked, with all of her furniture looted. Wires popped out of the walls, the ceiling was coming down, the furniture was left outside in the sun, her artwork was ruined, one of her granddaughter’s toys had been used as a paint bucket, and what she described as semen stains were on the beds and couches.
Kaylee McGhee White, editor-in-chief of IW Features, said: “Cathy Lindberg’s story serves as an important reminder that Democrats’ open borders agenda endangers every single American in every single state. Though Lindberg’s home was located in Florida, which has passed numerous policies aimed at curtailing the border crisis, the effects of that crisis still managed to reach her. Americans deserve a secure immigration system that will prevent similar injustices from occurring in the future.”
Meaghan Mobbs, Independent Women’s Center for American Safety and Security director said: “What happened to Cathy Lindberg should outrage every American. She followed the law, trusted the system, and was failed at every turn. Illegal immigrants squatted in her home, destroyed her property, and harassed her family. Law enforcement refused to act. The courts dragged their feet. And the very people who were supposed to protect her looked the other way. This is the real cost of an open border and a broken system. It doesn’t just affect border towns. It’s hitting neighborhoods like Cathy’s in the Florida Panhandle. At CASS, we’ve said it before: border security is national security.”
See more from IW Features “Collateral Damage: America’s Broken Immigration System” series below, which exposes the dangerous fallout of the unprecedented border crisis under the previous administration:
- “Brooklyn’s Border Crisis: Male Migrant Shelter Opens Steps From a Children’s School,” as told by Irina Edelstein, the Brooklyn chapter leader of IW’s national grassroots membership arm, Independent Women’s Network.
- Edelstein, an immigrant herself, joined Dr. Phil Primetime to break her silence on how the illegal migrant influx threatens the safety of communities nationwide.
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