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...
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My My…Arizona Law Already Working, Illegals Leaving The State In Droves
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I pray that some group airs some radio/TV commercials with the
address/phone#/email-address of some of the major sanctuary cities.
And finish with “amigo, these are the places that await you and are
hoping to give you more freebies than their state budget can support!!!”
The Texas lawmaker's nuts are in a La Raza lock-box.
I'm really very hard line when it comes to illegal immigration, but I have a certain degree of sympathy, or something like that, for these people who've actaully came here to work and not commit crimes, and found themselves living in a confused legal status which was not of their making. Sure, most of them knew the national government of the country they were in technically regarded their presence as illegal, though it obviously wasn't very interested in enforcing the law. And meanwhile, the state government of the state they were in had studiously avoided classifying their presence as illegal, and treated them as if they were here perfectly legally. Most of these people have no more than a Mexican elementary school education, and many don't even have that. A big share of the responsibility for this mess (and particularly for the mess of adults who were brought here as very young children, and now find themselves "illegal" in the only country they have any recollection of ever living in) lies not with the illegals themselves, but with U.S. citizens, for failing to force this issue to the front burner a LONG time ago.
I do want them all sent back where they belong, but I'd really like to see a whole lot of US citizens who knowningly profited from promoting the retention of illegal aliens here, tossed across the border with them. Think Democrat politicians, teacher's union leaders (who were eager to create more taxpayer-funded jobs by cramming the public schools full of illegal immigrants' kids), small business owners who were thrilled to enrich themselves by employing illegal immigrants as manual laborers for a pittance, etc.
Which is why so many other Governors are ‘against’ this law.
They know they’re citizens are not only going to want the same law, they’ll have the added pressure thanks to newcomers.
Lawrence, MA is 99% illegal aliens.
Ping!
Not if we all move there. Move to Phoenix and share a town with Rob Halford, the coolest gay guy on earth. :D
Seriously, I’m thinking the Dallas area is lost. The liberal who writes puff pieces for the Morning News once said how thrilling it was to go shopping and not hear a word of English. I experienced that the other day and “thrilling” was not my thought.
It’s not just the illegal immigrants who are mad at the Arizona immigration law, but LEGAL immigrants as well.
And I’ll never understand why. Why are legal Mexican Americans so eager to have illegals come across the border and crowd them out of jobs, and schools for their kids, and low rent housing?
That makes as much sense as Jesse and Al protesting for these illegals. Don’t they know that as more illegals come over, then the black minority is relegated to a third place status? And the black sub-minority is shrinking faster and faster.
T. R. Fehrenbach - Respected as a great historian - said once that all great civilizations have always imported their lower economic working classes.
Usually done through slavery. Now the US is doing this though illegal immigration.
There are consequences - both good and bad - for this, but it happens.
Someone should charter trains to take them to San Fran for free........ Hola Gavin!
AZ should pay for this with stimulus dollars. That way, it will create jobs for Americans just like Obama said it would!
I can't believe you asked that.
I had a mexican ask me to fill a gas can for him.
He was with a hippy looking group in a multi-colored bus. He said he was from Arizona. I asked where he was headed to. And he said he wasn’t sure, maybe Arkansas. Said they were just going from place to place helping the homeless. But when he’s asking me for gas, I figured he’s the homeless.
Yep, send a bunch to Chappaqua and some more to Hyannis Port.....
You bet. It’s their state and they have a right to protect the people who voted them in. Look how quickly and with great results that things can get done WITHOUT the gov.
And this is the dirty little secret about the whole thing:
By allowing illegals to remain as they are in this country, we are supporting a legalized version of slavery. These people work willingly, but they make sub-meager wages, live generally in barracks, and suffer long hours of back-braking labor under crappy conditions.
Why anyone on either side of the isle could support illegal immigration knowing this dirty secret is beyond me.
I wish NJ would pass this....Hoping more states do this and maybe Gov. Christie will catch on and urge our state reps to do something.
Hey maybe, if we can't deport them, we could round them up and everyone let them out in DC. A couple million illegals on the mall might wake up a few congressmen.
It is ironic that the cartoonist’s name is “Ramirez”!
Great cartoon....
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