Posted on 05/03/2010 7:06:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(CBS) – On a dusty block in Phoenix, 15 years of the Quintana family’s possessions are for sale.
Manuela Quintana said that they decided to leave when the Arizona governor signed the new immigration law.
For years, their family thrived with jobs in restaurants and construction, reports CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella. Their 10 children were born here and are U.S. citizens. Both she and her husband are undocumented, and currently unemployed.
She said that her biggest fear is being put in jail and having her children taken away from her. Just the thought of moving scares their 12-year-old daughter Graciela.
“I think it’s going to be my worst day,” Graciela said.
Two years ago, this park was filled with families every weekend. Arizona was home to more than half a million illegal immigrants. Since then, at least 100,000 have left.
Kyle Kester is the Quintana’s landlord – he’s lost seven tenants in the past week.
“I would say on this block alone we have 20 vacancies at least,” Kester said. “It’s not just illegal immigrants who are affected by this. I was born in the U.S. and it’s hurting me now.”
Graciela’s best friend fled to California with her family Saturday. She didn’t get to say good-bye.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Arizona’s welfare and “social service” expenses are likely to drop.
Maybe they will all go to California, specifically to San Francisco
DON’T COME TO TEXAS
C’mon Texas, what you’re waiting 4?
We’ll see more of this as time goes on, I suspect.
I feel for the kids, but the fact is, they are going through this mess now because of the choices their parents made. Mom and Dad chose to come here illegally, and they chose to continue to break the law for 15 straight years by staying here. They also chose to “put down roots” here knowing full well they were breaking the law and what could happen as a result.
A lot of people pointing the finger on this issue right now need to do it in front of a mirror, first.
"Immigrant Families" = unemployed illegal aliens.
The MSM is terminally allergic to using the word "illegal." ....in reference to their amigos south of the border, that is. But if the illegals were conservative Cubans or white folks from anywhere, the libs/MSM would be calling the INS themselves to report them.
Where do they get this 100,000 number??
Just ducky.....phock this.
The only way to get the illegals out of here is to physically remove them ourselves....this headline is very deceiving and making it sound like they are going back to Mexico, instead they are going to Calif. and Colorado.........all smoke and mirrors!
And on the Mexican side of the border at San Luis, protesters block entry into the US.
They leave the West behind.
Massachusetts will welcome them with open arms!
Why do they keep calling them “immigrants”? They didn’t come through Ellis Island with the other legal folk.
Probably brought left overs from restaurant home to feed family....
Herd ‘em back to whence they came...nah
I look for them to move to the more Communist friendly blue states
and vote (several times) for the US nutjob.
Their 10 children were born here and are U.S. citizens. Both she and her husband are undocumented, and currently unemployed.
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TEN children, no health insurance, guess who paid for all those births and medical bills. Sickening! No wonder our country is so effed up.
Actually I am not seeing too many here either.
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