Posted on 08/14/2017 2:56:56 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Edith Rivera loved her life in Hampton, Iowa, but for many undocumented immigrants like her, this summer has been a season of fear or flight.
It was quitting time. Edith Rivera took one last lunch order, dropped off a basket of tortilla chips and set off from work, heading out to the farm roads where other immigrants feared to drive.
Like them, Ms. Rivera, 33, had no legal status in the country where she had lived for 18 years. She had no drivers license, apart from the long-expired North Carolina identification she held safe, like a talisman, in her wallet.
But as she skimmed past the northern Iowa cornfields on her way to her son Stevens seventh-grade track meet, she did not share other immigrants fears. Not of being pulled over. Not of raids or deportation. Not of the man in the White House. Not of the new Franklin County sheriffs quest to make sure this rapidly diversifying community of hog barns and egg farms would never again be known as an immigrant sanctuary.
Her American journey was waning, and she had little left to lose.
Her husband, Jesús Canseco-Rodriguez, was already gone deported to Mexico in 2015. Ms. Rivera had jettisoned their apartment and sold off what the family had built here in Hampton: their small business power-washing hog barns, Mr. Cansecos work truck, their furniture.
Now, at this tense juncture for immigrants and their adoptive hometowns across the conservative swaths of rural America, Ms. Rivera planned to sever one last tie. She was returning to Mexico and to her husband with Steven, 13 years old and American-born.
Some politicians call it self-deportation. She called it her familys only hope of being together.
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Sounds like Mecico will gain a new middle class family.
Just what they need. In great numbers
Choice? Hard? No, just leave. Go, be gone, good riddance.
“She had no drivers license”
Or insurance, or SSID, or....
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We are going to end up with a problem of these illegals coming back south into the US across the Canadian border someday.
Immigrants as always are Welcome. Illegal aliens as always are not Welcome. Unless you are a Democrat searching for votes or the Media supporting the Democrats!
The old gray whore is an illegal antiAmerican euro immigrant that has infiltrated our nationt
This isn’t a question for straight white Christian males?
Cue the Boo Hoo Chorus ...
And what happens if she hits someone? She doesn't care.
If Canada's basic attitude toward these "refugees" substantially changes that could be the case.They could figure "Canada doesn't want me...the US doesn't want me...but the weather's better down south and it's easier to be invisible there".
But once on their soil Canada could only *expel* them to their native country...not to the country from where they entered Canada.
I'm somewhat familiar with one of the NYC suburbs in which top NY Slimes staff members live...Greenwich,CT (about 45 minutes from Manhattan by train).
Among the things that I can guarantee are true about Greenwich is that the only dark skinned people you see on the streets are the landscapers.
Cry me a river. Sob stories like this disgust me They broke US laws in coming here and now they're afraid of getting caught. TOO BAD! Jail 'em and then send them home after a short stay in custody just to remind them that they actually broke the law.
Always a good thing to do.
Adoptive hometowns?
Mexican’s wire billions of dollars back HOME to Mexico every year. It’s one of the leading sources of revenue for that country.
Social assistance welfare funding makes up the gap.
Cut off all freebies, jail, then deport all illegals who vote. No more anchor babies. Send ICE to places they congregate. Oh, build the wall too.
They can hit the road Jack, and don’t come back no more!!!
Another open borders sob story from Carlos Slim’s Blog.
It was the method the corporate farms used to take over family farms, illegal underpaid workers to push produce prices low enough that small farms were forced into bankruptcy.
These same corporate scum lobbied to close down LEGAL immigrants thereby increasing the supply of illegals to exploit.
She is a victim of Democrats, not conservatives. You want to fix immigration, make it legal again while HAMMERING the illegals and their exploiters.
Any company paying illegals should have their corporate officers do hard time. You always hear how bad the illegals are, but the traitors that hire them to destroy their competitors are ignored.
I work around a ton of illegals, and this country needs them, the vast majority would love to be free not exploited slaves. They are exactly who should be allowed to immigrate. But as long as the corporation gets its cheap labor, they don’t mind how many criminals are allowed to exploit welfare. It’s not the corporation paying the bills, it’s the tax payer.
Illegals mean profit on the backs of second class non citizens. Until we root out the greed, immigration reform is impossible.
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