Residents desert Mexico town for Seattle

The Seattle Times ^ | 4/29/08 | Lornet Turnbull

[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...

[Ramius]

Oh please... enough. You think you’re a better American than me. Fine. Get off your high horse already.

YSo Oklahoma no longer has any illegal aliens, huh? You actually believe that? I AGREE that Oklahoma did some very promising things. I’m not arguing that. But if you think there are enough unemployed to make up the shortage of workers, then we have nothing further to talk about.

Have a nice day!

[AuntB]

“Oh please... enough. You think you’re a better American than me. Fine. Get off your high horse already.”

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My, my aren’t we touchy...Don’t bother to address what I posted, just whine like the illegal aliens do and dream up you’re being insulted! Good Grief!

Now, smart guy, look again at what you replied to:

AuntB: “My area has no illegal aliens working at those jobs, YES, our citizens and kids line up for them. I just showed you the facts from Oklahoma! Some of those kids you dismiss are in Iraq. Are those the worthless types you refer to? And guess what....THEY can’t find entry level jobs when they get back!”

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Now, if you feel put down, THAT is your problem, bub. And YES, with idiotic responses like that, I’m a hell of a lot better American than you. First, we’re supposed to THINK.

[AuntB]

“In five or ten years they will be voting. That’s when life will get exciting for you. Me, I’ll be dead and buried.”

And I do believe death will be the only relief from the insanity that controls our politicians and many of their supporters.

[ApplegateRanch]

Start an faux "envirowhack" campaign to get them sent home. Do it right, and a lot of left-leaning crimalien lovers just might start to change their minds.

"Send them home: it is the enviro-friendly thing to do!"

Accompanied by photos of their camps etc.

"Remove 10,000,000 old oil burning, gas guzzling pollutomobiles from our highways now! Send their illegal alien owners home NOW!"

How much would that help congestion, gas "shortages"/prices etc.

"Twelve million illegal aliens are using the equivilent of (insert correct number) of filthy, coal fired power plants! Send them home, and save our environment!"

That would have to take a lot of pressure off the grids during peak times for rolling brownouts/blackouts.

[AuntB]

You are correct!!

I’ve just spent some time reading the following article written in 1994.
I checked the date several times. Yes, 1994.
Read it.
This could have been written today, and as you will see, Reagan and his people saw this coming.
This?
The demise of conservatism, the problems of a newly defined ‘economy’, pandering to illegal immigration and the results it brings. Limiting immigration, especially illegal immigration would do more than any single thing we could do for ‘energy’ policy.

First a quote from Reagan. “Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.” Ronald Reagan, Governor, State of California, Hearings before Subcommittee on Census and Population, 1974.

Fred Charles Ikle a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, served as under secretary of defense for policy in the Reagan administration and as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Ford administration.

OUR PERPETUAL GROWTH UTOPIA

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/

Worth the read!

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks, AuntB; that IS worth reading.

[Ramius]

I addressed what you posted and I even agreed with you, at least in part.

Good day.

[mvpel]

"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.

You know, all that siding and construction work that Americans won't do.

[sionnsar]

Thanks to JDoutrider for the ping.

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.

Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

[RainMan]

Hey ... I pinged sionnsar at number 8 and jd pinged him at 24 and jd gets the credit ... no fair.

[JDoutrider]

Heh Heh!

Old Indian trick!

LOL!

[XR7]

Thanks for that link in #45.

[hinckley buzzard]

That’s right, the early immigrants didn’t have the welfare system, but they had pride and determination

It is also true, though seldom told, that many immigrants, up to 50% in some years, when they couldn't make it for whatever reason, didn't lurk around "in the shadows" begging and stealing but rather went back to their homeland.

[san pancho]

"People drive down in their Cadillacs to show them off and there's a party every day," Sanchez said. "There are mariachis and people in the streets. I'd say $50,000 or more is spent on parties over the holidays."

but ask them to pay a hospital bill......

[san pancho]

Sanchez had married at 17 and his wife, Laticha, told him the only way for them to survive was for him to go north.

This mentality is really the source of the problem. To this woman, there is no place in the entirety of the Mexican Republic where work can be found, the only thing that one can aspire to is to jump the fence.