Posted on 04/29/2008 5:56:55 PM PDT by XR7
LORETITO, Mexico — It's the end of the day here. Down one lonely street two young boys kick a ball between them, as an elderly woman slowly makes her way nearby.
On most days, this little town about 300 miles northwest of Mexico City feels like the set of a Hollywood movie — its narrow streets and alleyways silent, stark, deserted.
From the sidewalk outside his small liquor shop, Edmundo Cruz takes in the vast emptiness, pointing out one house after another left vacant when families headed north — to Seattle.
It is said more Loretito people now live in the Seattle area than currently live here.
"Boys, as soon as they turn 16, leave to find work up north," said Cruz, who used to do siding and construction work in Seattle. He said he came back last year to be with his wife.
"It can get pretty quiet around here."
Loretito, a town of a few hundred, is like many across Mexico, where large numbers of men — and increasingly women — journey to the border and slip illegally into the U.S. in search of work.
What they leave behind is a town of small children, a few women and older people.
"There are whole towns like these all across Mexico where kids haven't seen their parents in four, five years," said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of a Chicago church and a pro-immigrant activist who's visited some of these towns.
"They are totally dependent economies, waiting for money to come from the states to finish the next wall for the new room."
Towns like these are fertile ground for smugglers — so-called coyotes who come recruiting for the journey north. For $3,000, they usually take people from here to the U.S. via the Arizona town of Nogales...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
How many times is this repeated all over the US of A?
There is no border control.
What a joke.
Instead of letting La Raza call the tune, why don’t we just make Mexican’s into Americans by annexing the sh1thole, tossing all the corrupt cops and politicians into Guatamala, and cleaning the place up?
Good idea, Michael. I’m answering this quickly before the administrator kicks you off for suggesting an invasion!
tossing all the corrupt cops and politicians into Guatamala, and cleaning the place up?
Oops, I thought you were talking about Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc., etc.
We would need to clean up our own mess before we start trying to clean up someone elses.
People who can come up with $3,000.00 for a coyote, and apparently own their homes (in order for them to have remained empty while they are in the US), are not exactly destitute by Mexican standards.
Just what all the liberal leftists RATS need in King County where there are more millionaires concentrated than any other place in the state.
Maybe we can send the Seattle libs down to Loretito.
WA Ping
You got that right....it is a joke. I can’t believe that people don’t get it. If the government really wanted to close the border they would do it. They don’t want the border closed.....simple as that.
I live 3 hours to the West of Seattle. Now there will be one more reason not to bother to go there.
It’s a shame...I lived over there many long years ago, it was fun way back then. I had always dreamed of coming into the downtown by way of the water, on my own boat. Now that I own one, it doesn’t seem like it’s worth the disgust I would feel about that place.
Goodbye Seattle.....RIP
the Cincinnati Enquirer did an article about the illegals in
southern Ohio/Northern KY. Most come from some little village in Mexico, everyone leaves when they are 14-16 years old and head this way. It seems like many of them settle in Warren County {Mason) and Butler County. Lately I have been seeing more and more in Clermont County. It seems we are being overrun and nobody cares.
A little village is “overrunning” two Ohio Counties? That’s nonsense. Something you need to understand... most Mexican adults are, in some sense, homeowners. They may only have joint ownership with their siblings of a shack, but they are homeowners, so of course they’ll have a piece of property in their name in Mexico.
If there is no work at home, and a relation has a job in the U.S., people are going to emigrate to where their relations live, or where they know people. My German ancestors did that in the early 1800s and my Irish ancestors in the 1840s. They were also despised for their “foreign ways” and religion. Nothing changes, except the bigots now use the internet.
Gosh, If Jeremiah Wright is correct, he should go down there and warn them that going to “Seattle” is actually going to”Hell.” Why doesn’t he warnthem? Doesn’t he like Mexicans?
So maybe we oughta stop raggin' about it as a campaign issue and figure out how in the world to work it to our advantage, eh? Like ol' W?
Problem is, our German relatives, and Polish, and Hungarian, etc. woyuld still like to do that - but our gubbamint makes it impossible for them. But if you are Mexican, then come on in! I suspect that is why folks are really p.o.'d.
I’ve been living in Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle, for over 10 years now. Its been startling how quickly the demographics have changed in this town. Every single restaurant and many other businesses are now all mexicans who barely speak english.
I’m sure half of that mexican ghost town is working at the Azteca and Red Robin down the street.
And read that last sentence, “now they all have children there.”
Every morning when I’m driving to work, the street I live on is lined with large apartment complexs and the school buses make many pickups on this street.
80% to 90% of the kids are mexicans, with a few indian and asian kids whose parents work at Microsoft mixed in. Its an anchor baby parade.
Whoops. I forgot. I’m a racist for talking about any of this. My bad.
Were your grandparents here legally- were they put through the process of actually becoming an American? Or were they here illegally, like most of the aliens from Mexico? Are you here legally? How can I trust you even if you say you are because you are evidently someone who doesn't believe in the rule of law? BTW: My great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S. and became U.S. citizens, and I come from a family with a long heritage of God-fearing and law-abiding. Fellow law-abiders like myself do not usually look kindly upon lawbreakers, whether domestic or foreign.
First time I heard that the early German immigrants were despised. History does not bear that out. Sure there were problems with the Irish, but this was generally confined to New York City.
The comparision with the latest migrants is like apples and oranges. Like some came to integrate and eventually love America, others now come to exploit it's welfare system. Something the early immigrants did not have. Work, or go hungry, for them.
They worked.
I agree that they should not be allowed to traipse across the border as they see fit, but you must concede that Mexicans seem to have a work ethic—as opposed to a whole slew of “Americans” whose ancestors came here over a century ago. It remains to be seen whether or not their spawn will retain this work ethic.
As for the dude who wanted to annex Mexico—I’m with you there. Think of all the cheap real estate that retiring boomers could snatch up!
That’s right, the early immigrants didn’t have the welfare system, but they had pride and determination. They had too much pride to try to slip into the U.S. without “paying the fare” and they had the determination to make their family’s life better, while making America better in the process. The legal immigrants of yesterday and today are the ones who have made America great, while the illegal immigrants are far, far different: they have held America up at gunpoint and dwindled her resources by stealing the breadbasket from her generous arms.
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