Illegal Immigration Myths

Front Page Magazine ^ | May 2, 2006 | Heather Mc Donald

[IrishMike]

As the nation braced for another demonstration of illegal alien power today, the press has been trotting out “fear engulfs the illegal alien community” stories, following the arrests last month of over 1,000 illegal aliens working for IFCO Systems North America. For instance: IMMIGRANTS PANICKED BY RUMORS OF RAIDS, reported the New York Times; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FEAR ROUNDUP, announced the Wall Street Journal; TALK OF IMMIGRANT ARRESTS IN AUSTIN FUELS FEAR, blared the Austin American-Statesman; and PATIENTS, FEARING INS RAIDS, DON’T SEEK HEALTH CARE, the Contra Costa Times warned.

And what exactly is wrong with that? The premise of all such stories is that the government has acted unconscionably in causing illegal aliens to fear deportation, however remote the risk. Worrying about deportation is a cruel burden that no illegal alien should have to live with, the reporters imply—and their sources state outright. “It doesn’t help society or anyone to have these people running scared,” Mexican consul general Jorge Guajardo told the Austin American-Statesman. The stories sympathetically reported on illegal aliens too nervous to attend karate class, shop, get their free medical examinations, or pick up their subsidized prescription drugs. Somewhat braver illegals go out only to pick up their children from taxpayer-subsidized school or Head Start programs.

After Border Patrol agents arrested a few hundred illegal aliens in southern California cities in 2004, the Los Angeles Times ran similar stories bemoaning the resultant fear among illegal aliens and quoting advocates and politicians blasting the Border Patrol’s outrageous behavior.

[VeniVidiVici]

I believe you want USC: Title 8, 1324(b). Although all of 1324 is just a wealth of info. Pass it around :-)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001324----000-.html

[VeniVidiVici]

argh - http://www.law.emory.edu/10circuit/may96/95-2142.wpd.html

[investigateworld]

In California, about one third of the ads on Spanish language radio was attorneys seeking workers comp clients. My favorite was the one urging 'injured workers to get their share of the prize'.

[bondjamesbond]

In California, about one third of the ads on Spanish language radio was attorneys seeking workers comp clients.

Illegal aliens are also perpetrators of most of the "Swoop and Squat" intentional car accidents in the North East, where a car with four or five people pulls in front of a likely looking mark on the highway and slams on the brakes while another car boxes in from the side. As soon as the smoke clears, you find you have a car full of whiplash victims, and the insurance company of the victim's car pays like clockwork.

Illegals are catching on to the scams. They are more likely to sue you than your typical American, not less likely.

[dennisw]

Illegal aliens are also perpetrators of most of the "Swoop and Squat" intentional car accidents in the North East, where a car with four or five people pulls in front of a likely looking mark on the highway and slams on the brakes while another car boxes in from the side. As soon as the smoke clears, you find you have a car full of whiplash victims, and the insurance company of the victim's car pays like clockwork.
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Pays to bring a camera with you. Kept in the glove compartment. Whip it out and watch the cockroaches scatter

[NJ_gent]

Oh perfect, thanks! :)