Posted on 02/26/2020 7:42:33 AM PST by karpov
LOS ANGELES José cared for the bottle-fed babies, 700 of them in all. He knew a calf was healthy if her eyes were bright and her appetite hearty. Droopy ears were a bad sign. He was attuned to calf coughs.
His job was to do all things a mom would do to look after her young, said Mary Kraft, who employed José and his brother, Juan, both undocumented immigrants from Mexico, for a decade at her Quail Ridge Dairy in Colorado.
Then about a year ago, the brothers informed Ms. Kraft that they were returning to Mexico. They had milked the land of opportunity and amassed enough savings to resume their lives back where they had started.
The pair are among a growing number of Mexicans who have been departing the United States in recent years, part of a reverse migration that has helped push the undocumented population to its lowest level in more than 15 years.
New data that will be released on Wednesday by the Center for Migration Studies shows there were 10.6 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States in 2018 compared with 11.75 million in 2010, a decline propelled primarily by Mexicans returning south.
The issue of illegal immigration has become a centerpiece of the 2020 presidential campaign, as President Trump has stepped up deportations across the interior of the United States and further fortified the southwestern border against unauthorized entry.
Several Democratic candidates have called for decriminalizing border crossings; establishing pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children; and relying on technology, not more fencing, to enforce the border with Mexico. They have also expressed support for focusing deportation resources on removing immigrants who are a threat to public safety or convicted criminals.
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“said Mary Kraft, who employed José and his brother, Juan, both undocumented immigrants from Mexico, for a decade at her Quail Ridge Dairy in Colorado.”
Anyone in Colorado buying products from this dairy, stop now!
The problem is, they’re taking their illegally-gotten wealth with them, enriching Mexico with American dollars.
I'd say the fact that they were Catholic was more of a prejudice on the part of Protestants, and that they were assimilated because they wanted to be Americans, not Irish, Italian, or whatever, but Americans.
Anecdotally I know this is not true of certain newer immigrant communities, as workers come over here, live 10-20 in a multifamily, and ship their money back to their relatives elsewhere. They want to come here, make money, and then return to their native country.
Therein lies the difference between then and now.
The number of illegals in this country has been shown in numerous other “studies” to be two or three times greater than that amount. 10.6 million illegals was the number being thrown around when Reagan was first elected in 1980. It is almost a joke that leftists are still using that number 40 years later. But we can thank the author of this piece for repeating the lie so that we know what follows is BS. Paraphrased, “We can have open borders because all the people who have spent every dime they have got and risked their lives to come here from 3rd world sh@thole countries will just go back on their own.”
[Didnt know Polish peoples were an immigration problem...]
a growing number of Mexicans who have been departing the United States in recent years, part of a reverse migration that has helped push the undocumented population to its lowest level in more than 15 years.
New data that will be released on Wednesday by the Center for Migration Studies shows there were 10.6 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States in 2018 compared with 11.75 million in 2010, a decline propelled primarily by Mexicans returning south.
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Pure NYTs propaganda. Mexicans returning are more than offset by newly arriving Nexicans and definitely overwhelmingly offset by Central Americans, Haitians, Africans, Muslims and others illegally entering.
Nobody believes that 10 million number. A more credible estimate is about 30 million illegals.
“They have also expressed support for focusing deportation resources on removing immigrants who are a threat to public safety or convicted criminals.”
BS. They shelter those criminals in sanctuary cities and release them to prey on the public rather than hand them over to immigration authorities. The left are accomplices to any crimes those criminal invaders commit.
Our company opened a new plant in Tijuana...
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Oh. You mean you opened maquila? You mean you are using cheap labor in Mexico to increase your profits rather than have an operation in the U.S. which gives legal American residents jobs?
You want applause and approval?
You are not a MAGA person if that is the case.
Yeah - but what was Romney’s plan to entice such self-deportation...he obviously doesn’t think that Trump’s effective means are the right way to go...
President Trump needs to do something else. Push through a law making it much easier for Americas to permanently surrender their citizenship and move to another country willing to grant them theirs.
Literally, an American with papers accepting them elsewhere, should be able to get a financial review and clearance of liens and warrants from the IRS and home state in about a month, present acceptance documents, cross the border and surrender their passport there, in another month. Additional travel would be with their new foreign passport.
Reducing the length of the process from 2-3 years to 2-3 months.
The purpose of this would be as a pressure release valve for all the radicals, hotheads, malcontents, Hollywood celebrities and others who hate America and say they want to leave.
Of which there will be an enormous number when President Trump is reelected.
The administration should do everything it can to insure that the door doesn’t hit such people on the way out.
If it is written in the Old Gray Whore, it is propaganda and not really true.
For those of you in Rio Linde, The Old Gray Whore is a New York brothel where Presstitutes gather
“Undocumented” huh?
So in other words - they are in the US legally but just misplaced their paperwork? Is that what we are supposed to believe?
We have teenagers back into all of the fast food places here in the Atlanta area. We don’t see so many beat up trucks stacked high with ladders anymore, either.
I didn’t personally open anything. Nobody even asked my opinion. From what I understand, it was a choice between Mexico and China. I’m glad we chose Mexico.
Boo hoo. BTW, unemployment is low in Mexico.
Wait, she knew that they were here illegally and yet she employed them for a decade? And why does she not offer wages high enough to attract American workers? Mary Kraft is part of the problem.
Are you kidding?
The whole freakin world is pouring in.
I’ve worked with invaders from countries so small I had never previously heard of them!
Lots of illegal Irish here too, I do not give a “Pass” to ANY of them.
Deport ALL illegals, no exceptions.
” Mexicans, Poles and South Koreans are all among those leaving.”
Good, take some Guats, El Salvadorians and maybe some Canadians with ya.
Ok, maybe leave the Canadians.
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