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Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of crackdown
Reuters ^ | Jul 25, 2010 | Tim Gaynor

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at af.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: ahead; aliens; arizona; crackdown; enforcementworks; flee; immigration; invaders; migrants; selfdeport; sell
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To: Niteflyr

...Swimmin pools, movie stars.


21 posted on 07/25/2010 1:15:59 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free (http://teapartypatriots.org)
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To: redpoll
This is good news.

Not for Pennsylvania. The only good news would be if they went back to May-he-co.

22 posted on 07/25/2010 1:16:27 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: donna

Phoenix garage sales are the best. Must have something to do with an affluent (mostly) population and houses build with NO storage space.


23 posted on 07/25/2010 1:17:37 PM PDT by riri
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To: mdittmar

:o)


24 posted on 07/25/2010 1:18:01 PM PDT by Niteflyr ("The number one goal in life is to parent yourself" Carl Jung)
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To: donna

Exactly. I don’t believe this for a second.


25 posted on 07/25/2010 1:18:15 PM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: mdittmar

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.....:)


26 posted on 07/25/2010 1:18:15 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: mdittmar

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.


27 posted on 07/25/2010 1:18:43 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: mdittmar

“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.


28 posted on 07/25/2010 1:18:53 PM PDT by jocon307 (It's the spending, stupid.)
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To: no dems
"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania

What makes you think you'll be welcome in Pennsylvania?

29 posted on 07/25/2010 1:19:18 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: redpoll

Damn, I dont want her in P.A.


30 posted on 07/25/2010 1:19:27 PM PDT by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: mdittmar

I saw the title and immediately knew the writer was a leftard.


31 posted on 07/25/2010 1:20:51 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Oldpuppymax
A typical presentation from al Reuters. And illegal “feels she has the right to be here.” What the he** is that??!!

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.."

32 posted on 07/25/2010 1:21:00 PM PDT by Niteflyr ("The number one goal in life is to parent yourself" Carl Jung)
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To: capt. norm

“Except Rhode Island!”

Well, fill us in. What does the RI law do? And how well has it worked?


33 posted on 07/25/2010 1:24:42 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: mdittmar

Way to go, Arizona!! Just the threat of enforcing the law is enough to make the illegals skedaddle.


34 posted on 07/25/2010 1:29:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And yet there are some on FR who say the law isn’t working. Ha!


35 posted on 07/25/2010 1:30:56 PM PDT by rintense
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To: riri

Or, stolen goods.


36 posted on 07/25/2010 1:31:35 PM PDT by donna (Pull over immediately and text your resignation.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“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!


37 posted on 07/25/2010 1:31:59 PM PDT by Magic Fingers
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

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’.


38 posted on 07/25/2010 1:34:44 PM PDT by HiJinx (I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
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To: mdittmar
"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."

Pennsylvania.

Not back home.

Sounds like turning the kitchen light on and watching the cock roaches scramble.

39 posted on 07/25/2010 1:35:02 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: mdittmar

scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix...

Wow, scores ...


40 posted on 07/25/2010 1:40:55 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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