Posted on 04/28/2010 3:37:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PHOENIX (AP) -- Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.
Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them.
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If this is true, this is really good news for legitimate contractors. You know, craftsmen who are American citizens, who are hard up for work because of the Obama depression, who actually pay taxes on the money they earn, and who reinvest their profits in America, rather than sending them back to relatives in Mexico.
The reverse side of the law, which nobody has taken into account, are the high number of citizens involved in the underground economy as well. Not just Mexican Americans, but Anglos and blacks are involved in this economy, with a lot of different reasons for doing so.
A major motivation is that many are very distrustful of the government, and go to great lengths to not be part of “the system”. Ironically a lot of these folks would fit right in at a Tea Party, and many with their families have been manhandled by the government in past, and want nothing to do with it ever again.
A lot of underage kids as well have to take whatever underground jobs they can find. Real survivalists, they know that if captured, they will likely be sent back to live with abusive parents, often under the cloud of being criminally sought for being a “runaway”. Some even face being sent to for-profit mental institutions solely on the discretion of their parents. They are diagnosed as mentally ill until the money runs out, or they turn 18, then they are suddenly “cured”.
Others in the underground economy include ex-cons that no one will hire in a legitimate job, who are desperate for any kind of work, other than crime. Without their underground jobs, they have no choice but to go back to crime.
And yes, there are lots of people in the underground economy with wants and warrants outstanding. Complaints often years old, and issued by other States, often for old drug possession charges, could send them to prison for years even though what they did then are petty offenses today.
Certainly there are a lot of people more than willing to force all these people back into “the system”, ignoring the human cost. Often the idea is that if they are driven from the underground, their jobs will then be offered to “legitimate” workers at many times the price. Which is pretty self-deceptive.
Is a baby sitter worth $75 an hour? Mow your lawn or vacuum your floors for $150? Take care of old invalids at the prevailing wage of a minimum of $500/day that the government demands it cost?
The overall effect is to strip such jobs of their market demand and supply, and make every job a union job.
If True - I Love a happy ending.
Send them to San Fran..............
BYE, don’t let the door hit your backside on the way out...take your anchor baby with you.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a crime to be in the U.S. illegally...
If "illegal" means "against the law", then it's already a "crime". Arizona can't make it a crime if it is already "illegal". Is logic not taught in college anymore, or are liberals trained to ignore the obvious?
as long as they go SOUTH. we have enough illegal criminals in colorado.
BWA-HAHAHAH. Let’s hope they go home, or, as a second best, to SF.
Are you sure you are on the right site for you? You seem to be a more emotion based person than logic. Where does the law attack citizens? If someone can prove citizenship, where is the attack on their rights unless they are breaking existing law?
maybe this will come to fruition in Virginia!
Don’t go away mad, just go away.
Imagine what it'll be like when it has actually gone into effect.
Boo Hoo. Too bad, so sad.
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