Posted on 10/11/2011 9:58:28 PM PDT by Lmo56
Foley, Ala. — Trailer by trailer, yard sale by yard sale, and pew by empty pew, a poor but tightknit immigrant community on Alabama’s breezy Gulf Coast is rapidly disintegrating.
This time it is not a tornado or hurricane uprooting families and scattering them to the winds. It is a new state law, largely upheld last week by a federal district judge, that seeks to drive illegal immigrants from the state by curtailing many of their rights, punishing anyone who knowingly employs, houses or assists them, and requiring schools and police to verify immigrants’ legal status.
Other states, including Arizona, Georgia and Colorado, have passed similar laws in the past several years in a growing trend by state legislatures to crack down on illegal immigration within their borders in the absence of comprehensive federal action. But Alabama’s new law is the toughest passed so far, and it is the only one to withstand federal lawsuits and other legal challenges, allowing it to take virtually full effect.
Across Alabama, news of the court ruling has swiftly spread panic and chaos among trailer parks and working-class areas where legal and illegal immigrant families from Mexico and Central America — as many as 150,000 people, by some estimates — live and work at jobs their bosses say local residents largely refuse to do.
In Foley, a sprawling seaside resort town where hundreds of Hispanic immigrants work in restaurants, sod farms and seafood industries, many families last week were taking their children out of school, piling their furniture into trucks, offering baby clothes and bicycles on front lawns for sale and saying tearful goodbyes to neighbors and co-workers they might never see again.
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“This law has shattered all our dreams,” said Maria, 35, a house cleaner and mother of two from central Mexico, weeping and clutching at her husband for support in a church meeting room. An illegal immigrant, she asked her last name not be used. “We do the jobs no one else wants to do. We pay taxes. We do not harm anyone. Now the government says they don’t want us here, but we have nowhere to go. All the doors are closing on us. We can’t even drive a car without being afraid. I cannot believe this is God’s will.”
Gimmee a break ...
You [essentially] break into someone's home, set up housekeeping, claim you pay taxes, then bitch and moan when they pass a law to throw you out, saying, “This law has shattered all our dreams” ...
“It is a new state law, largely upheld last week by a federal district judge, that seeks to drive illegal immigrants from the state by curtailing many of their rights...”
WHAT RIGHTS?
They can always head up to Wall Street and share a sleeping bag with some Occuzombie. I don’t think they’d mind.
“Now the government says they don’t want us here, but we have nowhere to go.”
I’ll take a wild guess here....try mexico.
Also remember that everyone of these cockroaches kids is costing the city or state $10,000 each per year to educate for 12 years.
There is no way in hell that they can ever repay in taxes what it is costing the US taxpayer.
I remember reading here last week that La Raza (The Racists) are going to drop their boycott of Arizona because they met their goal of scaring the other 49 states (56 to the Obama supporters) out of trying to pass a law like the one Arizona passed (SB 1070). LOL!!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Agreed.
Their (illegal aliens) dreams = Our national nightmare.
I wish the Texas legislature and our Governor would find the same spine those folks in Alabama have.
Good on you, ‘Bama.
And we just got the 2015 Super Bowl. So much for the backlash, LOL!
LOL! I forgot about that! Heh heh heh. La Raza’s boycott sure worked out well.
They must be headed for California! They will be welcomed with open arms!
Such crap here. Hey Maria, If you were in any country other than the USA and without a Visa, you would get your illegal butt shoved on the first plane out.
You pay taxes? BS on that. Were did you get the SSN? (from the 0pansy family and their CT stash?) Consumption tax on booze don't count Maria.
Poor Maria is afraid to drive. Do you have a DL? If you do, how did you get it? Glad to hear you and yours are not driving. Keeps the roads safer that way. (well, unless you have a nephew in the WH named 0pansy anyhow)
Hey Maria, I know many of out of work folks that would love to have the job that you have been doing illegally. So shove it were the sun don't shine.
Good to hear that the doors are closing in on ya Maria. Take your dead-beat illegal hubby and illegal kids and get the hell out you parasite.
OK, my rant is over (for now).
redshawk out.
Conservatism is on the march! Let’s keep the momentum going.
I thought it was really odd, from the standpoint that La Raza gave their permission, that the boycott of Arizona can be called off, as directed by La Raza officials.It makes out like La Raza is calling the shots
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