Posted on 12/23/2007 7:48:16 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Mexican illegal immigrant Lindi sat down with her husband Marco Antonio in the weeks before Christmas to decide when to go back to Mexico.
She has spent three years working as a hairdresser in and around Phoenix, but now she figures it is time to go back to her hometown of Aguascalientes in central Mexico.
"The situation has got so tough that there don't seem to be many options left for us," Lindi, who asked for her last name not to be used, told Reuters.
The couple are among a growing number of illegal immigrants across the United States who are starting to pack their bags and move on as a crackdown on undocumented immigrants widens and the U.S. economy slows, turning a traditional Christmas trek home into a one-way trip.
In the past year, U.S. immigration police have stepped up workplace sweeps across the country and teamed up with a growing number of local forces to train officers to enforce immigration laws.
Meanwhile, a bill seeking to offer many of the 12 million illegal immigrants a path to legal status was tossed by the U.S. Congress, spurring many state and local authorities to pass their own measures targeting illegal immigrants.
The toughening environment has been coupled with a turndown in the U.S. economy, which has tipped the balance toward self deportation for many illegal immigrants left struggling to find work.
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If this is really true, than look for a the MSM to publish a bunch of hard luck stories about the poor, innocent “undocumented immigrants” being driven away by the mean, selfish, racist Americans.
Adios amigos
Im sure they will be back to vote in the Presidential election.
2 down, 13-20 million more to go. Go back, and work on getting legal. If Americans decide we need more labor, we’ll up the # of legal immigrants we allow in—but they’ll be at OUR discretion and everyone must follow due process. If have no problem with immigration but it needs to be 100% legal in accordance with US Laws.
Good !
The MSM is so predictable...
I bet many are taking absentee ballot witht hem.
This might help solve Mexico’s labor shortage in time to manufacture Chinese cars and build the new seaport. It will upset US businesses that thrive on cheap, subsidized labor.
Don’t let the door hit ya, where God split ya!
There, fixed it!
Haven't heard anything about restauranters and contractors complaining about a shortage of labor, so I assume that the local Guatemalans and Mexicans have been slower to return than the aforementioned two nationalities.
Yeah, no American would want to work as a hairdresser. Especially American's just getting out of school for it.
Just doing the jobs that American's are willing to do is more like it.
“Just doing the jobs that American’s are willing to do is more like it.”
True, but illegals do commit crimes that Americans otherwise wouldn’t commit.
The liberal media does this everytime when it comes to illegals:
1) sob story
2) sob story that involves LATINOS all the time.
3) sob story that involves LATINOS all the time and blames it on the ‘corrupt, racist USA”.
so predictable...
Oh, boo friggin’ hoo. My tears are dropping into my glass of tequila and every hombre knows that tequila and tears don’t mix well.
Hey, amigos, don’t let the border hit you on your donkey as you head south.
Sounds good to me. Bringing to the attention of the AFIRE ping list.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
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Good riddance. I want them out of my country. If they want to play by the rules and come here legally, let them stand in line with everyone else and do things the right way. My mother had to do it that way, so, so should they.
But I thought illegal immigrants have no divided loyalty towards America?...(while marching through Los Angeles streets waving a Mexican flag, chanting ‘the border crossed us’ and sending remitances to Mexico).
They’re Americans too! After all, we’re a nation of immigrants, right?
Sniff...pass me a tissue please.
Andele! Andele! Vaya con Dios!
Great article!
And don’t let the door....
And please make that all the way home.
I have lived in Phoenix for 43 years and my dad and grand dad are from here. One guy that I work for, who works for the state of AZ, told me in 2001 that AZ was going to be majority Mexican by 2008. This would have happened but 2 million Californian’s move here to get away from the “paradise” they had made in there home state.
“In Arizona, where some specially trained sheriff’s deputies already enforce immigration laws and a new state law sanctioning businesses hiring undocumented workers is due to come in to effect January 1, many illegal immigrants are eyeing a move to states they see as less hostile.”
That would be Sheriff Joe. He has about 20 or 30 guys that he had trained to do ICE enforcement so they can make arrest. This is the only enforcement in the whole state by law enforcement. None of the city police will arrest illegal.
The Worker sanction law has been opposed by all the republicans in the chamber of commerce and they have filed many lawsuits to block the bill. Rhinos all of them.
Hey want to meet my new Mexican Mormon neighbors? (They are not too bad, after two years they started to mow the grass.)
I was in Spain for awhile this fall, and I wondered where all the Spanish people went. I was surprised how many Latin Americans were there. I think they had more than my city in the US. :) A friend of mine (dual citizen Ecuadoran/Spanish) left Ecuador and went to Spain because Ecuador’s economy is in the gutter. She was getting pretty frustrated about earning $10 per day as pediatrician. As long as the poor in Latin America keep voting in corrupt socialists, the emigration will continue.
Not as many Latin Americans in Southern Spain, due to the lack of economic opportunities relative to Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, etc. You see alot working in the construction industry, something you also see in Italy, to say nothing of the US.
Amazing how a relatively small country like Ecuador can send so many people abroad. The fact that you have Ecuadoran enclaves in Rome and Milan says alot.
Maybe we are, just a little, beginning to turn the corner?
As Trick Perry put it
Adios MoFo
Yahoo, Deportation through attrition works. If you stop giving to them, they will go. If you make life tough for them, they will go. If they feel unwanted and hunted, they will go. If they cannot work, they will go. See, Mr. Bush, just enforce the laws on the book and the illegals will go home.
Don't get me started on how there is NO SUCH THING as a Latino/Hispanic "race." This is purely an Anglo-American creation. When a certain Ford Foundation-supported organization with ZERO grassroots support calls itself "La Raza", they are referring to the concept of "La Raza Cosmica", from the neoHegelian Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos who believed that Mexicans were a "cosmic race" combining the best of the European with the best of the Native Indian.
One of the few things I hate about my own country is our obsession with pigeonholing people into narrow racial/cultural identities. Blame the goverment and the media for this.
If it is true, I doubt it is representative of reality.
Tim Gaynor is a primary illegal immigrant apologist posing as a journalist.
he is also know the blow pedophile Daniel Ortega in his spare time
I don’t know if we are to blame for “pigeonholing” or not- I for one am downright confused about what to call any group of people these days- used to be you could just call a racial group what most of them wanted to be called, but they kept changing that every few years, and still are changing terms so if we make up something to call them maybe it’s just self defense.
I have been called a racist for referring to citizens of Mexico as Mexicans- so I am just lost.
In other words, the most effective way to eliminate a pest is to cut off its food supply.
Ants, rats, mice, sharks or illegal immigrants, the principle is the same.
If many of the Mexican American (born in the USA) acquaintances/girlfriends I have had over the years don't object to being referred to as "Mexican", then it defies common sense not to refer to Mexican citizens as Mexicans.
Of course, here in NJ, we still have 3rd generation Americans who call themselves "Italian" even though they neither speak the language, nor have even set foot in Italy, but that's a whole 'nother story.
So, remember, you are right, THEY are wrong (and just plain stupid).
The media sure is singlemindedly pushing this myth of “bad economy.” They are all on the same page for defeating the Republican candidate in 08.
Actually we find giving them food with arsenic in it is superior for getting rid of ants than trying to lock up and seal everything in the house, because then they still come in for water and a look around.
There, fixed the story for the truth-challenged journalist who wrote it.
People get so hot and bothered over silly scenarios that satisfy emotions--round 'em up! Use the military to go door-to-door and take 'em away!--but will never, ever work on a practical level, because Americans simply do not want to see endless MSM imagery of weeping Mexicans and others being dragged out into the street by their military.
That is how liberals deal with problems--by taking the route that satisfies some emotion.
The only effective way to do this is to dry up the reason why the illegals come and stay in the first place--make it so that any employer who suspects an illegal is applying for work will toss the person out the door without a second's hesitation.
And the "self-deportations" aka leaving, will begin.
Huh, what's up with THAT!
Are you, Yahoo News, telling me Mexicans have to stand in line to get paperwork that allows them back into their own country to live and work, after coming here and doing the same thing without "paperwork?"
I just hope they take those ugly Mexican flags with them.
great catch!...I dont understand this but...is the lowlife scumbag guv of Mexico blocking re entry?
They are also seeing a rise in requests for papers enabling families to carry household belongings back to Mexico, free of import duties.
Last time I noticed, Mexicans didn't have to get "papers enabling families to carry household belongings......into the U.S.
Jeez, read this article and Mexico almost sounds like Hitler's Germany, what with "permission to make one's own children citizens" and "papers to bring one's own belongings."
Of course, it's all about taxation and money (er, pesos,) South of the Border.
Many of these people worked very hard and well. The U.S. housing boom, which wasn’t all bad by any means, wouldn’t have been possible without them.
That said, I think the immigration occurred because of the economy and, likewise, migration back to their home countries will occur because of the economy.
In that sense, the market probably has more to do with the problem of illegal immigration than anything else.
What has happened to the Spanish population in Spain?
Good catch!
BTW, you know the Mexican government is really sweating this, as money sent back from the U.S. is a huge part of their economy.
Maybe Mexico will start denying re-entry or permanent work permits to its citizens.
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