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| Illegal immigrants plan to leave over Ariz. law |
| 2010-04-29 |
| Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #20 Buh-bye. Don't let the border crossing hit you in the a@@ on the way out.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-29 21:29 |
| #19 How bout offering them free bus fare to San Francisco? |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-04-29 21:28 |
| #18 Illegals need not worry. Just as Rush Limbaugh said today. In this country there are many places that still donkt require documents from anyone to work or even to be POTUS. |
| Posted by: wt 2010-04-29 18:07 |
| #17 "It's a feature, not a bug!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-04-29 17:08 |
| #16 I guess that answers the statement "We can't deport all the ones who are already here!". We won't have to. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-04-29 15:47 |
| #15 It's not just gardening (illegals pushed a lot of Japanese Americans out of that field) but lishments couldn't survive on the new improved lower wages) and construction (lots of poor whites and black couldn't survive on the fresh new wages there either). So those Americans with nolonger needed skills move to unemployment and we pay that additional cost as a society. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-04-29 15:15 |
| #14 West, north, or east. Ain't none of 'em heading south though. |
| Posted by: Dar 2010-04-29 13:26 |
| #13 They may transit to Colorado and Denver, but unemployment and anti-immigrant sentiment is up there, too. Many of the traditional "good" jobs for unskilled labor have gone to a high influx of legal refugees, read Somalians, who get social services stipends, food stamps, rent, and medical care. They also get used cars, often old taxicabs, and cell phones, but funded by taxpayer dollars. Muslim refugees also get an extra break to pray, causing a lot of resentment and fights between the Hispanics and the Muslims working at Swift and other meat processing jobs. Fights between Mexican and Somalian/Sudanese students in Grand Island, NE in early February brought armed officers to the high school and caused quite a scare. Never heard about it? It made the front page of the local paper but no one else seemed to pick up on it. Friends of a relative passed it on or we wouldn't have heard about it. PC and Beltway Blindness has plagued Fly-Over country for sometime. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-04-29 12:45 |
| #12 Fortunately for New Mexico it only ranks above Louisiana and Mississippi in per capita income and subsequently social services are equally marginal. If they wanted to live in that kind of environment, they could have stayed home. Now, transiting to Colorado and the Denver metro area is the usual behavior of those who've cut trail before. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-04-29 11:30 |
| #11 #10 Yes, sounds like they'll be moving. But I notice that none of them seem to be planning to move back to...Mexico. Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-29 10:02 The states bordering Arizona are in for some large scale "new" immigrant problems. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2010-04-29 11:17 |
| #10 Yes, sounds like they'll be moving. But I notice that none of them seem to be planning to move back to...Mexico. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-29 10:02 |
| #9 You don't want to hire kids to mow your lawn - when they hurt themselves they will sue you out of your house. You have to hire a 'professional'. Newspaper routes? Who wants to let their kids out on the streets alone, in the dark - even if the kids were willing and able? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-04-29 09:46 |
| #8 sounds good to me. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-04-29 08:20 |
| #7 And the article makes it sound like this is a bad thing.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-29 07:55 |
| #6 You just don't see kids doing that anymore. Nor delivering newspapers. That's because the grown-ups took those jobs, whether legals or illegals. Those kids who don't babysit or referee soccer games are pretty much out of luck these days. Even McDonalds, et al has been preferentially hiring adults instead of teenagers. I've read statistics that put teenager unemployment as 25-50%... and youngsters like the trailing daughters don't even look, to give the ones who really need the money a better chance. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-29 07:40 |
| #5 When Bobby is 32 and still living at home looking for work in the Great Recession, mom and dad are going to tell Bobby to start looking for his own beer money. At least Bobby's work will be 'off the books' as well, but won't be remitted outside the border [unless he's buying Heineken]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-04-29 04:55 |
| #4 Bobby Sinclair does mowing & landscaping You just don't see kids doing that anymore. Was the quickest way to make money as a kid and good exercise at 2X the minimum wage or more. Perhaps Obama will implement forced yard work for kids as part of nationalized health care. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-29 02:12 |
| #3 Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by. Bobby Sinclair does mowing & landscaping, and his dad is a carpenter! HIRE THEM! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-29 01:51 |
| #2 I thought making the illegals leave was the whole idea, this is an indicator of success. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-04-29 00:55 |
| #1 good! that means that it is working |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-04-29 00:43 |