Posted on 12/27/2007 3:27:43 AM PST by NCDragon
MEXICO CITY - Lorenzo Martinez, an illegal immigrant who has lived in Los Angeles for six years, has a message for his kin in Mexico's Hidalgo state: Stay put. The steady construction work that allowed him to send home as much as $1,000 a month in recent years has disappeared. The 36-year-old father of four said desperation is growing among the day laborers with whom he competes for odd jobs.
Sporadic employment isn't the half of it. Martinez said anxiety is also running high among undocumented workers about stepped-up workplace raids, deportations and increasing demands by U.S. employers for proof that they are in the country legally.
"Better not to come," Martinez said of anyone thinking about crossing into the U.S. illegally. "The situation is really bad."
That message seems to be getting through. There are numerous signs of a slowdown in illegal immigration.
What's behind the apparent decline?
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A related article at the website reported that illegals were siphoning off money and sending it to mexico at the rate of 2 billion dollars a month. That's a lot of cashflow, month after month, sucked out of the local US economies, never to return.
A related article at the website reported that illegals were siphoning off money and sending it to mexico at the rate of 2 billion dollars a month. That's a lot of cashflow, month after month, sucked out of the local US economies, never to return.
This irony is lost on most.
of course it is.
Regrettably, I think this has more to do with the economy than the effectiveness of our enforcement.
When, because of economic slowdown and more strict employer enforcement, these "fine" folk begin to run desperate enough to rob and murder a few of their felon enablers, will we just shrug those acts off as collateral effects of engaging in criminal behavior?
Who the hell would want to immigrate to Cuba, illegally or not?
? Caesar Chavez was not in Cuba. He was heading up Farmworkers rights here in California....
How did cuba get into this...
Sorry! Brain flatulence.
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