Posted on 07/25/2010 12:59:57 PM PDT by mdittmar
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.
A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbour Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.
"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered."
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.
The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day labourers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico.
It makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime and requires state and local police, during lawful contact, to investigate the status of anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
The U.S. government estimates 100,000 unauthorized migrants left Arizona after the state passed an employer sanctions law three years ago requiring companies to verify workers' status using a federal computer system. There are no figures for the number who have left since the new law passed in April.
Some are heading back to Mexico or to neighbouring states. Others are staying put and taking their chances.
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...Swimmin pools, movie stars.
Not for Pennsylvania. The only good news would be if they went back to May-he-co.
Phoenix garage sales are the best. Must have something to do with an affluent (mostly) population and houses build with NO storage space.
:o)
Exactly. I don’t believe this for a second.
Before they head back to Mexico, I need 6 or 8 of them to swing by my house up here in WA and replace my roof.....:)
A typical presentation from al Reuters. And illegal “feels she has the right to be here.” What the he** is that??!! Does she also feel she has the right to stick up the local gas station? That is ALSO illegal. And naturally, Reuters tells us thee are all hard working folks, just here to lawfully support their families. BULL!! Not one mention of the areas of Arizona declared off limits by the Husein regime because Mexican drug dealers have made them too dangerous for American citizens. No mention of the ever increasing crime rate brought on by illegals. The bankrupting of states due to taxpayers supporting millions of these people? Nope. Nary a word. Just kind, industrious people, put upon by those EEEEVIL, RAAAAACST republicans.
“The law...seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day labourers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona...”
Gee, you know, I don’t think that’s exactly what the law seeks to do. I think the law is intended to drive out the murderers, rapists, robbers, kidnappers and other illegal invaders from Mexico and elsewhere.
What makes you think you'll be welcome in Pennsylvania?
Damn, I dont want her in P.A.
I saw the title and immediately knew the writer was a leftard.
I heard an illegal Mexican who called into KFI say that : "Mexico is part of the Americas so Mexicans can go anywhere they want on the continent.."
“Except Rhode Island!”
Well, fill us in. What does the RI law do? And how well has it worked?
Way to go, Arizona!! Just the threat of enforcing the law is enough to make the illegals skedaddle.
And yet there are some on FR who say the law isn’t working. Ha!
Or, stolen goods.
“Way to go, Arizona!! Just the threat of enforcing the law is enough to make the illegals skedaddle.”
And it will be fantastic if we’re actually allowed to enforce it!
Ping!
Not the first time in the last three months we’ve read this story - almost identical, yard sales, etc. They’ve just changed the names to protect their ‘sources’.
Pennsylvania.
Not back home.
Sounds like turning the kitchen light on and watching the cock roaches scramble.
scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix...
Wow, scores ...
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