Tide of illegal immigrants ebbs

Los Angeles Times ^ | December 27, 2007 | Marla Dickerson

[Joe Boucher]

For years I’ve known that the only way to deal with the illegal problem was to take action against employers who hire illegals, action against folks who rent to illegals or in any way help known illegals.
The new Arizona law seems to be doing the trick. Time to enforce our laws and kick ALL illegals out of our country.

[uncitizen]

How many articles have i seen on this topic in the last few days? 4 or 5. So, all of a sudden the media noticed the day before yesterday that the flow of illegals into our country has ebbed and/or so many of them are going back to Mexico?? Come on, this is the media trying to convince us that we don’t have this problem anymore. Thus, it’s not issue that presidential candidates need talk about much.

[Carbonado]

OK guys, just move along. Nothing to see here.

Just forget about the 20 million already here.

Go back to sleep. Everything is fine.

Liberalism + MSM = filth. It always adds up to the same thing.

[Carbonado]

OK guys, just move along. Nothing to see here.

Just forget about the 20 million already here.

Go back to sleep. Everything is fine.

Liberalism + MSM = filth. It always adds up to the same thing.

[Teacher317]

What's behind the apparent decline?

They're all here.

[kalee]

So when is Martinez going home?

[Clemenza]

The downturn in the influx in the New York/New Jersey area became noticeable about three years ago. It seemed that the Mexicans/Guatemalans who started coming here in large numbers since the early 90s stopped coming is as large numbers.

Don't talk to many Mexicans/Guatemalans in the area, but the Ecuadorians and Brazilians I know of are leaving due to the decline in the dollar exchange rate. That and the fact that Italy and Spain have a reputation for being "welcoming" to Latin American immigrants (which is understandable considering the alternative).

[glmjr]

I would rather vote for a Democrat than that....more government involvment...amnesty pushing... foreign affairs ignorant...Bush bashing....high taxing....parole giving...credential lying.....preacher hick from Arkansas. That's about it (sure I missed something)

Minute Men of America
 Stand Up

 

I always thought our group stood for stopping illegal immigration.  I also thought  that we, The Minute Me, wanted a permanent security fence along our southern border.  It is now clear to me that our leaders are either asleep or have given up on our cause to save America from becoming a third world nation.

"When I am president, I will build a fence."

 

Did you know .....Fred Thompson in a speech in Iowa on the 21st. of Dec. declared  "When I am president, I will build a fence."  He went further on to say...Amnesty and illegal immigration, he said, are not healthy for the U.S. or Mexico. "We need to be a nation of high fences and wide gates."

Is this not what we want?
Where are our leaders?
Why aren't there Minute Men  TV spots endorsing  Fred Thompson?  

If we fail we may very well have a Democrat or a liberal Republican elected, who will then push an amnesty bill through congress. 

Call your Minute Men Headquarters today and give them your opinion.

 

[Eric Blair 2084]

Has anybody on an illegal immigration thread ever suggested that the US do what France and the UK are doing in some cases...paying the illegals to go back home?

[Eric Blair 2084]

Hopefully that endorsement will come.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for the ping. I don’t think the tide has changed, just one smaller wave than normal waves.

.

.

.

.

According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts

In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd

[gubamyster]

ping

[TLI]

The liberal media is trying to take the issue off the table for the 2008 elections.

Somebody forgot to tell the criminal illegal aliens here in Dallas. There are so many now that they were standing on street corners to be picked up for cash labor at 9:30 Christmas morning. And not just a few, I saw about 100 total in about 5 blocks on Ross Av. At 9:30 Christmas morning.

[Kenny Bunk]

Enforcing the law is working? Who would have thunk it!!!

Undeniably enforcement is probably having some effect. But simple arithmetic more than likely deserves the credit for the decline.

Olde México is a nation of some 100 Million people (a number that is evidently a closely guarded Mexican secret). One way or another there are already some 30 Million Mexicans here (another closely guarded secret).

Maybe it sounds stupid, but the most probable reason Mexican immigration is slowing down just might be that they are running short of Mexicans. I personally have visited villages where there seem to be mostly only old-timers and kids, with a few young mothers. Of course, the shortfall is being made up to some extent by our travelling vecinos from countries further south, but they simply haven't got the people pool that México does, or did.

Mexicans, legal and illegal, and their offspring will shortly comprise about a third of our population. "Shortly," to me means about 50 years.

[bcsco]

Has anybody on an illegal immigration thread ever suggested that the US do what France and the UK are doing in some cases...paying the illegals to go back home?

Not that I'm aware of. I find it difficult to accept paying someone to rectify what was a crime to begin with. Would we be opening the door to illegal immigration for profit?

[pulaskibush]

The flow of illegals needs to slow to 0, and we need to see a flow of deported illegals flow back to their so called countries!

[television is just wrong]

Caesar Chavez many decades ago, wanted to LIMIT the number of them simply because it would depress wages, and cause the exact problems they are experiencing now.

[television is just wrong]

Caesar Chavez many decades ago, wanted to LIMIT the number of them simply because it would depress wages, and cause the exact problems they are experiencing now.

[Perchant]

The liberals don’t want this as a campaign issue so expect to hear lots of media assertions that the problem is magically fixing itself.

[DesScorp]

Amazing how simply enforcing existing laws works.