Posted on 04/29/2010 9:15:57 AM PDT by Starman417
Amazing what the actual enforcement of laws on the books can do eh?
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.~~~Supporters of the law hope it creates jobs for thousands of Americans.An estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years as it cracked down on illegal immigration and its economy was especially hard hit by the Great Recession. A Department of Homeland Security report on illegal immigrants estimates Arizona's illegal immigrant population peaked in 2008 at 560,000, and a year later dipped to 460,000.
The law's supporters hope the departure of illegal immigrants will help dismantle part of the underground economy here and create jobs for thousands of legal residents in a state with a 9.6 percent unemployment rate.
Kavanagh says day labor is generally off the books, and that deprives the state of much-needed tax dollars. "We'll never eliminate it, just like laws against street prostitution," he says. "But we can greatly reduce the prevalence."
The AP article tries to insinuate, once again, that police can detain a person for just looking illegal which is complete and utter baloney.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
Someone said on Fox that they will all head for sanctuary cities - which will have the “unintended consequences” of making the libs see their own handouts start to dry up as there will be less to go around.
Go Arizona!
I hope, even though I live in Illinois, to see 0erro’s home city to be overrun with a couple million more hungry mouths.
Yes, that’s the point -
the left says we HAVE to give them amnesty because we can’t deport them all.
But, if they think they’ll get deported anyway, they might as well leave.
Time to work on the other aspect of this as well - the employers. No jobs, no illegals.
And, perhaps this will work out for the betterment of Mexico as well. Without the “safety valve”, they’ll be forced to address their problems in their own country.
More at Link
By Jon Christian Ryter
January 27, 2010
NewsWithViews.comThree times in the history of the United States US Presidents took what would today be considered a politically unpopular position by rounding up and deporting illegal aliens to create jobs for US Citizens. The first attempt occurred shortly after the banker-induced Stock Market Crash of 1929 when President Herbert Hoover ordered the round-up and deportation of illegals by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. The program, dubbed "Operation Wetback," was carried out without any protests from US government-funded Hispanic advocacy groupssince there were none. The Clintonesque-liberal media political correctness dictionary was still 63 years in the future and the communist-left FDR (America's white Barack Obama) federal bureaucracy was still some 4-years in the making.
The Hoover roundup sent over one million Mexican illegal aliens packingfreeing up jobs for out-of-work US citizens. In addition, some 47 thousand Mexican nationals who were in the country legally, with visas, also opted to leave due to rising animosity by out-of-work Americans for any foreigner in the United States with a job. Operation Wetback was launched in the Southwest: Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. But deportees also came from Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, and New York. Since Mexican illegals tried hard to remain under the radar screen, few of them traveled far beyond the border States, thus we can assume that most of the deportees from the States north of the Mason-Dixon line were legal residents. During the Hoover years, immigration to he United States was virtually stopped.
The Hoover deportations caused an outcry from the Mexican government demanding to know what gave Hoover the right to deny Mexican citizens the right to jobs in the United States under what was called the "Good Neighbor Policy." At the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman was faced with the same problem that plagued Hoover in 1931no jobs for US citizens. Under Roosevelt's Public Law 78 agri-giants, who needed dirt cheap labor were allowed to import labor from Mexico even though 25% of the American labor force was out of workand in the dust bowl farm states, unemployment stood at over 70%. Under Public Law 78, when work contracts were fulfilled, the employer was responsible, under law, to transport the migrant worker back to Mexico. As thousands of migrant workers simply vanished into the human landscape, taking what few jobs were available from American workers, Truman's solution was to issue a terse public statement admonishing Congress, and telling the American people that Congress assured him they would fix the problem. (Yeah, we can see how well the buck stopped at his desk.)
During the prosperity of the war years (1943-54), illegal alien immigration increased by 6,000%, triggering Operation Wetback II and III. In 1954, the INS estimated that illegalsnot legal migrant workerswere crossing the US border at the rate of one million per year and that they were penetrating much deeper into the nation that in preceding decades because the INS concentrated their efforts only in the border States. The INS, on orders from the White House, went through the motions of rounding up both illegal aliens and migrant workers who overstayed their visas. Truman deported about 30 thousand Mexicans during his seven years in office.
Truman's blamed his poor record on guarding the border on Public Law 78, enacted by FDR's 73rd Congress and S.984, which was enacted by the 82nd Congress (that expanded the use of migratory workers from Mexico) and made it more difficult to expel illegals under Woodrow Wilson's "Good Neighbor Policy" with Mexico.
Truman became one of the three "deportion presidents" not for deporting Mexicans under Operation Wetback II, but under Presidential Proclamation 2655, an edict requiring the deportation of potentially dangerous WWII detainees from the Axis nations. Deported were several thousand men, women and children of German and Italian ancestry who spend most of World War II in internment camps. It appears that only about 900 Pervian Japanese farmers, held by the US government in that country, were deported to Japan at the end of war.
>What are you gonna do? Deport half a million people? /leftspeak
It’s either that or kill and bury half a million invaders.
Take your pick.
Not for just being in the country.
they find their way here...
Illegal immigrants increasingly go north
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1543281520080115?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Illegal immigrants from Latin America are heading deeper into the United States to find work and avoid deportation as crackdowns in border states like Texas and Arizona make life more difficult for them.
**12 illegal immigrants arrested during traffic stop in Cloquet (MN)***
http://www.twincities.com/ci_14888830?source=most_viewed
Governor T-Paw has not commented on this that I know of.(but he does fancy himself a McCain wannabe, so that explains a lot)
yeah, drunks fighting on Saturday night....add a bunch of illegals to the normal activity and then we’ll talk
Upholding law has consequences....
What we need is a giant cattle drive for all illegals to the border.....
Red states will pay for the blue states idiocy and fake “compassion”.
Blue states will continue to pay for free education for “gimme-grants” and Red states will foot the bill.
Once the gravy train derails...think Kalifornia as Greece.
They walked all the way here....they can walk back!
>>What are you gonna do? Deport half a million people? /leftspeak
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>Its either that or kill and bury half a million invaders.
>Take your pick.
Though, come to think of it, human bodies do make excellent fertilizer. We could stimulate the agriculture sector of our nation AND solve the illegal immigrant issue all at once!
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San Francisco boycotts Arizona?
The occupancy at the gay Sedona resort drops a little, but the Arizona AIDS rate also drops.
Isn't Portland a sanctuary city? Long long ago (decades ago when we lived closer to Oregon) I bought a bird in Hillsboro. I was told by locals that they were (even back then) being overtaken by illegal aliens. I imagine it's much worse now.
Oh, crap! Let's hope the Berkeley Hills can keep the infestation from reaching to the "right side" of the Bay Area, such as it is.
This cartoon is priceless, and perhaps one of many reasons there is such outrage from the WH, when all he has to do is release paperwork proving he’s a “natural born citizen.” Even more so, wondering if he was registered in the USA as a “foreign student.”
Arizonans. Doing the job that other Americans won't do.
I hope they head for CA, not NM.
We used to live in a townhouse where they took the unit by unit approach. Don’t know if they ever sprayed en masse - by that time we’d gotten disgusted and moved on.
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