Posted on 03/19/2013 5:10:18 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
PHOENIX (Reuters) - At the end of a day of driving around Phoenix in his battered Ford truck scavenging for boxes, Mexican day laborer Jesus Aquilar sells the load to a recycler for pennies a pound, and tosses the yellow receipt with others on his dashboard.
Now that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have begun a push for comprehensive immigration reform, he wants to ensure he will benefit. When the time comes - if it does - to apply for legal status, the stash of dog-eared receipts could be a paper trail to a hoped-for life out of the shadows.
"It's to show them that you are doing the impossible to survive ... and show them that you are doing the decent thing," said Aguilar, speaking in Spanish. "I am here in this country to contribute."
Aguilar is among millions of illegal immigrants at the sharp end of a daily battle for survival on the margins of American society as Obama pushes for immigration reform in Washington, months after Hispanic voters turned out to give the Democrat a second term.
Obama wants Congress to send him a bill tightening border security and giving many of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants like Aguilar a shot at citizenship, provided they pay fines, back taxes, learn English and wait in line.
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"He's Latino, of Mexican descent," said Marcos Lopez, 32, who shares a two bedroom apartment with five other immigrants to enable him to support his family in Mexico. "He's forgotten that his parents and grandparents got here the same way we did, as immigrants.".....Marcos Lopez,complaining about a police officer who is honest and upholds the laws of this nation.
Only psychopaths refuse to acknowledge the difference between legal and illegal immigration.
Too bad we can't treat them like Old Mehico treats their illegal immigrants.
Do politicians even LISTEN to themselves?
These illegal aliens ALREADY have broken the law by coming here ILLEGALLY.
Why the *#@% would they self-deport, pay $ in fines, learn English and apply legally, when they have shown that they don't HAVE to?
If they don't do any of that NOW, why would they all of a sudden start?
And the biggest question I have for the amnesty pushers is how exactly will you MAKE these people do this? Ask them pretty please go back to Mexico? Arrest them for not complying? Hell they don't comply with our laws now.
Hey Marcos Lopez: YOU are not an immigrant. YOU are a foreigner. YOU ARE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN.
So they can come up with these papers to ID their status here, but when they go to the polls to vote, we can't ask them for any photo ID.
Our world is ending.
Aquilar is among millions of “illegal” aliens who broke the law to sneak into the country and are felons on the loose. Of course his life is crummy and stressful. He’s not supposed to be here.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Mexico was prevented from exporting their poverty to us and instead were forced to address their corrupt economic and political systems by a whole slew of young, restless, agitating Latino men.
Instead we allow all this to be blamed on us and then we are required to support and pay for it.
You said it.
If America took a hark line with Mexico and if these people did not have a free ride on our welfare, they WOULD be pushing for a Mexican Spring.
I know a lot of Hispanics in Arizona that do not support the illegals. They got here the legal way!
I have said many times before here that if Mexicans would put half the energy into fixing their country that they do into destroying ours maybe someday Mexico will be a place they don’t have to run away from.
Interesting the the writers insist on using terms like “Arizona day laborer.”
If I illegally settled in Alberta, would I be an “Alberta day laborer?” I think I would just be some illegally present Yankee without work authorization.
The same principle applies to everyone.
“Hey Marcos Lopez: YOU are not an immigrant. YOU are a foreigner. YOU ARE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN.”
and you are a criminal. in a right world you wouldn’t be here. in a states trump federalis world, in arizina you would be deported.
You post makes no sense.
“You post makes no sense.”
I assume you meant to type “your”.
It makes sense to me. What is your problem with the comment?
I have a relative who immigrated here from Mexico. He fought for it. He came here with an education and proved that he had something to offer this nation. After getting his visa, he busted his butt for decades before he became a true American citizen.
He HATES illegal immigrants. “They’re cheating! They’re criminals! They should have to work for it, like I did!”
70% of them will still put loyalty to Mexico over the US, even their children will
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