To: Oldeconomybuyer
So what did New Mexico do to get a break on the illegals? They kinda stick out like a sore thumb among southern border states.
5 posted on
07/25/2014 4:49:25 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: cripplecreek
“So what did New Mexico do?”
I think they just get routed to the motor vehicle division to get instant citizenship and pre-absentee vote a few times.
To: cripplecreek
Well, there's probably several reasons for it:
- NM has traditionally been a democrat-voting state.
(Not that I think there's any difference between the parties.) - It has an already high percentage of hispanic people — this can have interesting dynamics (a lot [surprising for the area] of hispanics here don't take too kindly to illegal immigrants [essentially the term
hispanic
is too broad to capture differences]). - There's a high percentage of catholics.
- Given the prevalence of speaking Spanish for legal/historical reasons [See NM Constitution: Art XII, Sec 8 and Art XX, Sec 12, and Art XIX, Sec 1] a Mexican might be able to blend in and thus not be recorded.
- NM tends to be overlooked a surprising amount; remember that image of Fast & Furious guns? It was blank for NM because nobody got that data. There was even a somewhat locally-famous case against a family that owned a gun-shop that came about with some very questionable information/informants/investigators.
So, given all of the above I would be unsurprised if both (a) the image under-reports NM, and (b) there's fewer shipped here because
One of Our Fifty is Missing
.
24 posted on
07/25/2014 5:41:03 PM PDT by
OneWingedShark
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