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Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in the Heartland
NY Slimes ^ | 12 Aug 17 | JACK HEALY

Posted on 08/14/2017 2:56:56 AM PDT by SkyPilot

Edith Rivera loved her life in Hampton, Iowa, but for many undocumented immigrants like her, this summer has been a season of fear or flight.

It was quitting time. Edith Rivera took one last lunch order, dropped off a basket of tortilla chips and set off from work, heading out to the farm roads where other immigrants feared to drive.

Like them, Ms. Rivera, 33, had no legal status in the country where she had lived for 18 years. She had no driver’s license, apart from the long-expired North Carolina identification she held safe, like a talisman, in her wallet.

But as she skimmed past the northern Iowa cornfields on her way to her son Steven’s seventh-grade track meet, she did not share other immigrants’ fears. Not of being pulled over. Not of raids or deportation. Not of the man in the White House. Not of the new Franklin County sheriff’s quest to make sure this rapidly diversifying community of hog barns and egg farms would never again be known as an immigrant sanctuary.

Her American journey was waning, and she had little left to lose.

Her husband, Jesús Canseco-Rodriguez, was already gone — deported to Mexico in 2015. Ms. Rivera had jettisoned their apartment and sold off what the family had built here in Hampton: their small business power-washing hog barns, Mr. Canseco’s work truck, their furniture.

Now, at this tense juncture for immigrants and their adoptive hometowns across the conservative swaths of rural America, Ms. Rivera planned to sever one last tie. She was returning to Mexico — and to her husband — with Steven, 13 years old and American-born.

Some politicians call it “self-deportation.” She called it her family’s only hope of being together.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: agsessions; aliens; bordersecurity; illegals; immigrants; invaders; mediabias; trump; trumpdhs
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To: SkyPilot
Leave is the best choice by far.Canada will welcome you with open arms,give you a place to live,food and medical care.They'll probably also give you free cable (in the language of your choice),a free cell phone with free international calls and a car so you can get to your local “mosque”.
21 posted on 08/14/2017 3:58:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: SkyPilot

Sounds like Mecico will gain a new middle class family.
Just what they need. In great numbers


22 posted on 08/14/2017 3:59:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: SkyPilot

Choice? Hard? No, just leave. Go, be gone, good riddance.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 4:00:53 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: SkyPilot

“She had no driver’s license”

Or insurance, or SSID, or....

L


24 posted on 08/14/2017 4:06:43 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: SkyPilot
ILLEGALS
Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in the Heartland

25 posted on 08/14/2017 4:12:51 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Canada will welcome you with open arms,give you a place to live,food and medical care.They'll probably also give you free cable (in the language of your choice),a free cell phone with free international calls and a car so you can get to your local “mosque”.

We are going to end up with a problem of these illegals coming back south into the US across the Canadian border someday.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 4:16:35 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: SkyPilot

Immigrants as always are Welcome. Illegal aliens as always are not Welcome. Unless you are a Democrat searching for votes or the Media supporting the Democrats!


27 posted on 08/14/2017 4:17:28 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: SkyPilot

The old gray whore is an illegal antiAmerican euro immigrant that has infiltrated our nationt


28 posted on 08/14/2017 4:18:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: SkyPilot

This isn’t a question for straight white Christian males?


29 posted on 08/14/2017 4:19:33 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: SkyPilot

Cue the Boo Hoo Chorus ...


30 posted on 08/14/2017 4:32:56 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: SkyPilot
No driver's license? That means no insurance or registration. More crimes.

And what happens if she hits someone? She doesn't care.

31 posted on 08/14/2017 4:34:57 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
We are going to end up with a problem of these illegals coming back south into the US across the Canadian border someday.

If Canada's basic attitude toward these "refugees" substantially changes that could be the case.They could figure "Canada doesn't want me...the US doesn't want me...but the weather's better down south and it's easier to be invisible there".

But once on their soil Canada could only *expel* them to their native country...not to the country from where they entered Canada.

32 posted on 08/14/2017 4:35:38 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: bert
The old gray whore is an illegal antiAmerican euro immigrant that has infiltrated our nation

I'm somewhat familiar with one of the NYC suburbs in which top NY Slimes staff members live...Greenwich,CT (about 45 minutes from Manhattan by train).

Among the things that I can guarantee are true about Greenwich is that the only dark skinned people you see on the streets are the landscapers.

33 posted on 08/14/2017 4:40:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: SkyPilot
Waaaa waaaa

Cry me a river. Sob stories like this disgust me They broke US laws in coming here and now they're afraid of getting caught. TOO BAD! Jail 'em and then send them home after a short stay in custody just to remind them that they actually broke the law.

34 posted on 08/14/2017 4:56:16 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: xp38
My post was just showing the usual dishonesty of the slimes and MSM.

Always a good thing to do.

35 posted on 08/14/2017 5:04:39 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Jim Noble

Adoptive hometowns?

Mexican’s wire billions of dollars back HOME to Mexico every year. It’s one of the leading sources of revenue for that country.

Social assistance welfare funding makes up the gap.


36 posted on 08/14/2017 5:42:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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To: SkyPilot

Cut off all freebies, jail, then deport all illegals who vote. No more anchor babies. Send ICE to places they congregate. Oh, build the wall too.


37 posted on 08/14/2017 5:44:10 AM PDT by umgud
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To: SkyPilot

They can hit the road Jack, and don’t come back no more!!!


38 posted on 08/14/2017 5:47:05 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet (If it is to be, it's up to me))
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To: SkyPilot

Another open borders sob story from Carlos Slim’s Blog.


39 posted on 08/14/2017 5:52:36 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: niteowl77

It was the method the corporate farms used to take over family farms, illegal underpaid workers to push produce prices low enough that small farms were forced into bankruptcy.

These same corporate scum lobbied to close down LEGAL immigrants thereby increasing the supply of illegals to exploit.

She is a victim of Democrats, not conservatives. You want to fix immigration, make it legal again while HAMMERING the illegals and their exploiters.

Any company paying illegals should have their corporate officers do hard time. You always hear how bad the illegals are, but the traitors that hire them to destroy their competitors are ignored.

I work around a ton of illegals, and this country needs them, the vast majority would love to be free not exploited slaves. They are exactly who should be allowed to immigrate. But as long as the corporation gets its cheap labor, they don’t mind how many criminals are allowed to exploit welfare. It’s not the corporation paying the bills, it’s the tax payer.

Illegals mean profit on the backs of second class non citizens. Until we root out the greed, immigration reform is impossible.


40 posted on 08/14/2017 6:09:36 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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