Posted on 02/09/2008 12:05:19 AM PST by Iron Munro
For the first time, Mexican officials in Arizona admit there is hard evidence illegal immigrants are preparing to leave the state because a new employer sanctions law is making it difficult, if not impossible, for them to keep a job. Illegal immigrants are flooding the Mexican consulate in Phoenix for documents that will allow them to return to Mexico to enroll their children in school, the consul to Arizona, Carlos Flores Vizcarra, told FOX News. They are also requesting a document called "menaje de casa," which allows illegal immigrant families living in the U.S. to cross into Mexico without paying a tax on their furniture and personal belongings. Vizcarra said 94 families asked the embassy for students transfer documents last month, compared to only three last year. He said several thousand immigrants asked for the tax document. In a separate interview, Edmundo Hidalgo of the non-profit immigrant support group Chicanos Por La Causa, said 30,000 illegal immigrants said in a survey last week that they planned to leave Arizona sometime before March 1, when the states tough new employer sanctions law goes into effect. Under the law, employers can lose their business licenses if they hire undocumented workers. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has set up a hotline for citizens to report on employers who hire illegals. He has said enforcement will begin when the law goes into effect. Many deputies have also been given arrest authority by Customs and Border Protection to enforce federal immigration law. So in the course of a traffic stop, illegal immigrants without a driver's license could ultimately face deportation. These factors, combined with a slowing economy, are forcing many undocumented workers to consider leaving Arizona. According to a study last year, 12 percent of Arizonas workforce is in the U.S. illegally,
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I wish we would get that lucky in California.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lemme see now
Illegal aliens come into the US sans any documents...Check
They stay here in the US without documents...Check...
They get called “undocumented whatevers”...Check...
Ilegal aliens cant go back to their own country without documents...Check..
Ilegal aliens cant stay in their own country without documents..Check..
Just checking...
/s
A somber, sullen Juan McCain mourns the tragic winnowing of his natural voting constituency:
Mad John won’t like this one bit.
Regards
Check.
Buh
Bye..
don’t let the smugglers run ya over on the way south
Some of them just might move to California to get in on the freebies they receive here.
In Texas too.
Some of them may slip over the State border to the west of AZ, joining the millions who have melted away into the populous.
...The invaders are retreating - and without a shot being fired on our part. We these laws all over the country! Arizona is doing something right!
Billy Kess
.... and ask how many are moving from AZ to other US where life as an illegal will still be easy, so they don’t even need to request such docs from the Mexican consulate......
If it were far more difficult and expensive for illegals to operate in ANY state in the USA then of course far more would “self deport” — that’s just common sense, except to liberal and RINO politicians!!
Bottom line is that the illegal problem could be solved overnight if fines against employers was enforced along with the introduction of a non tamper proof SS card.
The law right now is that an employer has to accept whatever kind of bogus ID an illegal provides, they are not responsible for the authenticity and as long as they have the bogus document on file, they can hire the guy no questions asked.
This has to be changed.
McCain will sign this legislation, he is on record as supporting it.
oops - we ^NEED^ these laws...
(and we could also use an ‘edit’ feature ... hehehe)
:)
I think a lot of it has to do with the downturn in the housing market, also.
That thought has occurred to me, too. But we have so many illegals here already, what’s a paltry 30,000 more?
Brownback: Because we don't need a new system, and we don't need a new ID.
Moderator: Senator McCain, Senator McCain, are you for a national, tamper-proof ID card?
McCain: That's one of the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission. And absolutely, if someone wants to work, they have to have a document that's tamper-proof. And any employer who employs someone else with any other document like a bogus Social Security card or birth certificate should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Moderator: Dr. Paul.
Paul: I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.
Paul: The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Moderator: Mr. Tancredo, do you agree with the need for a national tamper-proof ID card?
Tancredo: We do not need a national -- I do not think we need a national ID card, much for the reasons that Dr. Paul said. We absolutely need a verifiable Social Security card. They are two separate things. I believe that we can accomplish the former without jeopardizing individuals liberties...
Moderator: But you say legally you have to be who you say you are?
Tancredo: Pardon me?
Moderator: You have to be the person on that card.
Tancredo: That is absolutely what I'm saying. It's got to be verifiable, absolutely.
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