Posted on 07/30/2007 9:55:00 AM PDT by Andy'smom
The 51-year-old Brazilian man came with plans to stay here for up to six years to save enough money to buy a house in Brazil, two cars for his daughters and secure a life back home.
But after three years of calling Framingham home, the man has decided to go back to Brazil with only part of his dreams fulfilled mainly because, he said, living as an illegal immigrant doesn't pay off anymore.
"It's not worth it," said the man, who doesn't want to be identified for fear of deportation. "It was good when I first got here, when the money I made here had more value back home. Now it's not worth all the suffering. That's why I'm leaving."
He is not the only one.
Across MetroWest and the Milford area, many Brazilian immigrants are packing their belongings and leaving...
(Excerpt) Read more at metrowestdailynews.com ...
Blame it on the bossa nova.
***many Brazilian immigrants are packing their belongings and leaving***
They’re not immigrants, they’re criminals.
I’ve never been one to desire a falling dollar .... maybe I should rethink my position.
Bye bye!
The Framingham area (plus Marlborough and Milford) is saturated with them and the editors don’t want to “offend”.
I will believe it when I don’t see’ em anymore
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Well then I better not come into contact with them then. I don’t even have to say anything to offend them.
:)
Actually, I think it might be the employers who are starting to crack down. The police in Framingham are probably too chicken to hassle them. I know the town government is afraid of them, the Brazilians took over Framingham center years ago.
If he is leaving why is he afraid of deportation?
There was an arbitrage: the remuneration for doing semiskilled labor in the US was much higher than doing semiskilled labor in Brazil.
The US still pays more, but travel is a cost, the weather is a cost and being away from family is a cost as well.
Factoring all those variables in, the arbitrage is thinner than it was.
Where is my tissue paper? I think I am going to cry, I am so HAPPY....bye illegals. (weep, weep)
Jose and Juan are holding signs, begging on a street corner.
Jose has no money, Juan has a basket full of ten dollar bills...
Jose asks why.
Juan: “Look at your sign. It says ‘Please help. I need to support my six kids.’ Now look at my sign.”
Jose reads Juan’s sign which says “Only ten dollars away from taking my six kids and moving back to Brazil.”
BUMP!!!
LOL. The Boston Globe (and others) subcontracts their home deliveries to agencies that use illegal immigrants as drivers. The illegals always leave notes with envelopes in the paper asking for money or advertising cleaning services run by their wives. My husband is always nagging me to send them tips. When I tell him that I’d be glad to if they promise me they’ll save up for a plane ticket home, he gives me a dirty look.
To quote Carl Everett(former Red Sox player and certifiable nutcase)
“BYE...BYE....BYE!!!”
I think the amazing thing is that these writers continue to try to invoke our sympathy. And every time I read one of these stories, I go to the “comment” section of the newspaper from which it came, and virtually EVERYONE responds as we do here (the aliens have broken the law, they’ve been caught and need to go home!). But the media keeps thinking if they re-phrase these stories, they’ll somehow get our support. Forget about it!
Not as tired as we are of having you be a criminal in our Country.
Adios!
I'm not in construction anymore, but if I was I would never use them. I think most guys in construction are pretty conservative and patriotic. They are probably thinking twice about using the day laborers.
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