House of shattered dreams: US deports more and more Mexicans

M&C ^ | Nov 29, 2008

[Westlander]

The employers should get a 250K fine per illegal they employed.

[Domandred]

blah blah blah blah blah

They broke the law, kick em out, I don’t care what country they came from.

[ckilmer]

Oh there's one other cost of illegals that has gone generally unnoticed. Calling the Old Media: Five Million Illegals Have Illegal Mortgages in U.S.A.!

MALKIN: Illegal immigrant factor

Once again its helpful to provide some maps and stats: Look at the map where those who owe more than the house is worth. Notice any similarities to the unemployment picture and concentrations of illegals

A good place for detailed accounts of mortgage fraud is a blog called Mortgage Fraud which bills itself as "the central clearing house on mortgage fraud schemes indictments and prevention"

Calling the Old Media: Five Million Illegals Have Illegal Mortgages in U.S.A.! Our source for that story, a retired agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stands by those numbers. A person from Housing and Urban Development contacted KFYI to tell us the number was inaccurate, that there were only 2.3 million mortgages held by immigrants, so there was no way that 5 million illegals could have mortgages.
However, HUD cries foul over illegal immigrant mortgage data

Despite Illegal Status, Buyers Get Home Loans

N.Va. Foreclosures Form 'Ring of Fire' But drive with Thompson through the hardest-hit areas of Prince William County -- the epicenter of the region's foreclosure trouble -- and the loss of value has been precipitous. By and large, those properties are concentrated in lower-priced areas and Zip codes where many immigrants bought homes in recent years, often with subprime mortgages and other risky arrangements that required little down payment or documentation. In Northern Virginia and especially Prince William, many buyers were Hispanic immigrants.

And now we have the mortgage crisis, which has sent a shock wave through Wall Street and panicked world financial markets like no other since the stock market crash of 1929. But this is a problem created in Washington long ago. It originated with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), signed into law in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The CRA was Carter's answer to a grassroots activist movement started in Chicago, and forced banks to make loans to low income, high risk customers. PhD economist and former Texas Senator Phil Gramm has called it: "a vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks."

Immigration Counters tells it by the numbers Sadly Illegal Immigrants To Get Next Bailou

[Hugin]

I suppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be the starting point when Obama uses his promised budget cut scalpel.

[9YearLurker]

Who knows? Perhaps the glorious law of unintended consequences will play out and the struggling economy will bring voters to elect a Congress based on this issue in ‘10. Reid is confident that he and McCain will get amnesty through the Senate, but the House won’t be as easy and Obama’s black constituents could well be likewarm on the issue.

[Hugin]

You can’t really generalize about that. Many aren’t interested in becoming American citizens, but many do, especially thos who have lived here since they were little kids and are Americanized. I actually feel sorry for them, as they didn’t make the decision to come. But letting them stay is simply going to encourage more to bring their kids. So in this case standards have to overrule compassion.

[org.whodat]

Little violin, little violin

[ronnie raygun]

While we’re at it lets deport some muslims and a freeze on immigration from certain parts of the world. If Brooklyn NY was named the #1 hot bed of terrorst activity and no one does a thing about it I would think it is time for these non American, non assimilating muslims to go back. The rats do not want assimilation, they want small enclaves of ethnic poverty to prey upon and have beholden to them. The rats are the reason we are in this mess.

[Oldexpat]

With unemployment in CA over 7%, it should be hard to justify the need for more undocumented workers.
For each sob story their is some legal resident or citizen bounding the street looking for work. Where is the sympathy for them.
I’ve been employing a young out of work american around the house and he voted for Obama. I took him by Home Depot and showed him the competition and that Obama was going to give them green cards to work.

[CzarNicky]

Or Victor, from Guatemala, who worked for 16 years for a security firm in Los Angeles - without documents. According to his own account, he was recently involved in a shooting, in which an attacker was killed. Victor was deported, not because he was involved in the death of a man, but because he was in the United States illegally. He does not want to return to Guatemala, and he is looking for work in Tijuana.

Victor may want to rethink his future Mexico doesn't take kindly to illegal immigrants or at least the ones stopping in Mexico.

[CodeToad]

Saying deporting illegal aliens is “shattered dreams” is like saying not letting the pervert rape the prom queen shatters his dreams of getting the girl or a house burglar getting his dreams of a big screen TV shattered if we won’t let him steal from us.

[CodeToad]

and a 1 year jail term for each and every illegal alien.

[ponygirl]

Where, or where, did I leave my tiny violin...?

[DCPatriot]

Juan, 19, arrived in the United States 18 years ago with his mother, when he was just 10 months old. He went to school despite being in the country illegally. His downfall was drinking a beer on the street and being caught by police.

Over the coming days, he was preparing to meet his grandparents for the first time. He was not sure when he will get to see his mother again.

That's just not right.

[OneWingedShark]

*shrug* - There are procedures for immigrating legally, and yes the whole system could possibly [and probably needs] to be remodeled for better efficiency.

[dennisw]

Yeah these deportations are a drop in the bucket

A normal nation gets rid of illegal aliens during a depression which sure looks like we are headed to. Instead the Democrats will betray the common man and try to legalize them all to get a bumper crop of new Democrat voters..... Eternally grateful to Democrats for legalization and same for their sons and grandsons

[Candor7]

Demographic Warfare against the USA.

And this is what they write?

Talk about skewed context.

[OneWingedShark]

The second biggest myth (”climate crisis” is first) in this country is that these people want “a path to citizenship.” Mexicans love Mexico and their Mexican culture. They have absolutely NO INTEREST in becoming Americans. They only come to the U.S. for the big BUCKS! I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the reason the Mexican government wants them “legalized” is so that they can tax (or extort) the money they make here and then send back to Mexico. That may sound dumb but the Mexican government is up to something with all their “immigration” crap.

Ok, that's untrue. I personally know Mexicans who love America that are here legal. I know that my Brother-in-law's father was an illegal immigrant, at one time, but has been naturalized since.

There may be large segments of Mexicans here that ARE as you describe; however I do not think it is particularly right to use such an all-inclusive statement.

[tumblindice]

If he was here illegally he must have received amnesty, not naturalization, prolly in `86.

[Guenevere]

Too many like Pablo are jumping the red traffic lights and killing American citizens.