Posted on 02/23/2017 8:53:55 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Illegal aliens in this part of Texas are making plans (including financial plans) to leave and go home should the actions taken by the government make it necessary. This comes from those working in financial institutions locally who deal with this demographic on a daily basis. Apparently, the recent raids by ICE are having an impact. Should anything major (like a large roundup at some company at which they are working) happen, more than likely thousands will start to self-deport.
My screen name is what it is because I feel like I’m a freak out here in Cali.
When I had a FT job, I was the only person there who had the FR mindset.
It took me a while to figure out that so-called normal people didn’t think like me and I need to hide who I really am.
I feel freakishly out of place here.
Ok, you can come but no one else. ;)
They come here and bring their wacky governmental ideas with them. It’s not just the illegals who are turning Texas purple. Then they buy real estate and instead of bargaining down, they offer higher prices. Uh, hello, that only brings appraisals up and higher property taxes. You wouldn’t believe the appraisals these days. The sky’s the limit. Here, people are being taxed out of there homes.
I believe there’s a conspiracy afoot of libs, illegals and refugees intentionally contaminating every area.
I wish they’d stay in their diverse urban utopias and leave the normal areas alone.
How about an EO that anyone deported will have their fingerprints, iris scan, and DNA entered into the DHS database and be forever barred from reentry? Not so for those who self deport, who would be eligible for future reentry if and when we ever want them (e.g., temporary seasonal bracero workers who will have fail safe tracking devices). Meh-he-co will wave self-deporters back in with no questions asked. We should be able to get rid of a lot of them that way.
Good idea.
Austin
Your post is spot on.
Last night some chinese friends told us ICE raided a china buffet in Missouri and hauled away several illegal employees.
Thanks. At least some must be taking Trump seriously
enough to be thinking ahead.
This must be Fake News. Weren't we told that "you can't deport all of them, so why try?"
An underground network is readying homes to hide immigrants
Network hopes to shelther hundreds, thousands
LOS ANGELES (CNN) - A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smooths the grain of the wood floor in the dining room.
But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is showing off in Los Angeles, with its refurbished floors, is no ordinary home.
“It would be three families we host here,” Valiente says.
By “host,” she means provide refuge to people who may be sought by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. - The families staying here would be Undocumented immigrants, fearing an ICE raid and possible deportation.
The purchase of this home is part of a network formed by Los Angeles religious leaders across faiths in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.
The intent is to shelter hundreds, possibly thousands of undocumented people in safe houses across Southern California.
The goal is to offer another sanctuary beyond religious buildings or schools, ones that require federal authorities to obtain warrants before entering the homes.
“That’s what we need to do as a community to keep families together,” Valiente says.
At another Los Angeles neighborhood miles away, a Jewish man shows off a sparsely decorated spare bedroom in his home. White sheets on the bed and the clean, adjacent full bathroom bear all the markers of an impending visit.
The man, who asked not to be identified, pictures an undocumented woman and her children who may find refuge in his home someday.
The man says he’s never been in trouble before and has difficulty picturing that moment. But he’s well educated and understands the Fourth Amendment, which gives people the right to be secure in their homes, against unreasonable searches and seizures. He’s pictured the moment if ICE were to knock on his door.
“I definitely won’t let them in. That’s our legal right,” he says. “If they have a warrant, then they can come in. I can imagine that could be scary, but I feel the consequences of being passive in this moment is a little scary.”
The secret network
The religious leaders have a name for their network: the Rapid Response Team. The idea is not necessarily a new one, according to Reverend Zach Hoover, executive director of the interfaith community organization LA Voice.
Hoover, 37, wasn’t an active member during the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s when US congregations across faiths resisted federal law and provided shelter for Central Americans fleeing violence in their home countries. Many congregations offered direct sanctuary, housing the undocumented immigrants, while others offered food and legal assistance.
The Rapid Response Team mirrors that structure, but goes one step further by also incorporating private homes, which offer a higher level of constitutional protection than houses of worship and an ability to make it harder for federal agents to find undocumented immigrants.
Under federal law, locations like churches and synagogues are technically public spaces that authorities could enter to conduct law enforcement actions. In 2011, the Department of Homeland Security instituted a policy limiting ICE action at religious locations. The policy ordered ICE to not enter “sensitive locations” like schools and institutions of worship.
giddyup
This would be very prudent.
If they are deported, and a plurality of them will be, they lose everything but the clothes on their backs.
If they make their own arrangements to move, they can sell their immobile assets and take the cash and their household goods and vehicles with them.
Not legally.
How will they support themselves?
At their expired H-1B jobs.
See above.
It would hurt me personally. A glut of unoccupied housing in San Jose would prevent me from selling off my 'under water' home there...
Nevada is nice.
I’ve written articles in the local papers for years about illegals overtaxing our systems and I was called a conservative pig and more by the socialist chimpanzees. Our county is constantly warned about water overuse, sewer overuse, street decay, traffic problems, school overcrowding and most of all lack of housing. The socialist chimpanzees refused to relate these problems to massive illegal invasions. City’s and county’s were not prepared for this load on the systems and have been patching for years at the cost of US citizens.
Yes, saw that. Some people need to be arrested with the illegal immigrants. It is against Federal law to harbor illegals. Set an example. Now.
The biggest problem of all is the complete overtaxing of the healthcare system, something for which the socialists are digging in their heels. Through the Healthcare Act, they ultimately maintain control and then total control over the population. Total....totalitarian.
I’m thinking Nevada or Arizona, high desert with not too much snow. Idaho is a possibility but might be too much snow.
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