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'The US isn't an option anymore': why California's immigrants are heading back to Mexico
Guardian ^

Posted on 01/01/2021 10:04:33 AM PST by springwater13

California’s most vulnerable immigrants have faced unprecedented challenges this year, with some weighing whether it’s worth staying in the United States altogether.

Ten months of a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened immigrants and devastated some of the industries that rely on immigrant labor, combined with years of anti-immigrant policies by the Trump administration have exacerbated insecurities for undocumented people and immigrants working low-wage jobs across California.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borderwall; california
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1 posted on 01/01/2021 10:04:33 AM PST by springwater13
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California is too shitty for Mexicans...


2 posted on 01/01/2021 10:05:24 AM PST by EEGator
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Excellent... if they remain there.


3 posted on 01/01/2021 10:05:39 AM PST by Ingtar
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To: springwater13

They want to come in legally under Biden.


4 posted on 01/01/2021 10:06:24 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: springwater13

Seriously though, the article is garbage.
Anti immigrant policies? How about the rule of law?
The UK sucks more than we do at least...


5 posted on 01/01/2021 10:07:16 AM PST by EEGator
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To: springwater13

Adios!


6 posted on 01/01/2021 10:07:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PLMerite

Total B.S. They know they’re better off here under any conditions. Same with blacks coming here as slaves. Would they go back where they eat each other?


7 posted on 01/01/2021 10:08:59 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: springwater13

Maybe it’s because California is becoming more corrupt, impoverished, crime ridden and dysfunctional than Mexico. There’s no longer any reason to go there.


8 posted on 01/01/2021 10:09:40 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: springwater13

As one of my EE professors said “a system with poles in the right half-plane will encounter some force that will move the poles into the left half-plane.”


9 posted on 01/01/2021 10:10:02 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: springwater13
Or more honestly - those here illegally...
10 posted on 01/01/2021 10:10:46 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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The free shit just isn’t worth it any more

That’s a victory of sorts, I suppose.


11 posted on 01/01/2021 10:10:59 AM PST by PGR88
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To: LuxAerterna

According to the article, they do view California as a shithole compared to Mexico.
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Javier Lua Figureo moved back to his home town in Michoacán, Mexico, three years ago, after living and working in California for a dozen years. Since the pandemic hit, several of his friends and family members have followed his lead, he said.

“Things aren’t perfect in Mexico,” Figureo said in Spanish. But at least there’s access to healthcare, and some unemployment benefits for those who need it, he added. “In comparison to what it was in the US, the situation for us in Mexico right now is much better.”


12 posted on 01/01/2021 10:12:06 AM PST by springwater13
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What "anti-immigrant policies"? You mean the pro-LEGAL immigrant policies of the current administration?
13 posted on 01/01/2021 10:12:18 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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Oh no! What is Newscum gonna do now?

The middle class is moving out in droves. The Mexicans are moving out in droves. Plans are being made to increase taxes to pay for all the schemes.

All the fun places to go and do have been impacted. State parks have been closed all summer. Beaches have been closed. Restaurants have been closed. Skate parks have been filled in with sand.

Who going to help Newscum turn California into a dystopian utopia when all the planned slaves have left?

14 posted on 01/01/2021 10:15:54 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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nice that they get to float between the 2 countries, at their convenience and for what they can get right now.
Make them stay there!


15 posted on 01/01/2021 10:16:26 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: springwater13

Now Mexico will really want the wall finished.


16 posted on 01/01/2021 10:21:06 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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How will we get by if the criminals go home?
So many questions...


17 posted on 01/01/2021 10:21:43 AM PST by glasseye ("If you don't fire that prosecutor, you ain't black." -Joe Biden)
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To: springwater13

I was born and raised in SE LA county.
My last address was Paramount CA, just across the LA river from Compton. Y’all watch the movie “Live and die in LA”
minus the rich part of town. scenes, that is where I and my wife of 44 years grew up.
We escaped CA in 1979. To many WHITE liberals were moving in and making the place look like a Monkey Effing a football.
It looks even worse today.
Full disclosure; Spanish and Mandarin are my second and third languages, please speak SLOWLY so this white trash boy can understand you.
Aloha.


18 posted on 01/01/2021 10:23:41 AM PST by rellic
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To: springwater13
Somebody has to post this icon:


19 posted on 01/01/2021 10:24:26 AM PST by Oatka
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First - they’re NOT ‘immigrants’ - they’re people who broke into our country illegally...

A street drug pusher is NOT a pharmacist...

A burgher is NOT a house guest.

A whore is not a wife

A person who breaks into our country is NOT an “immigrant”.


20 posted on 01/01/2021 10:25:51 AM PST by GOPJ (Our culture is starting to push thugs to the top - it's the kiss of death for an advanced culture.)
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