Here ya' go.
Posted on 12/29/2007 7:14:35 AM PST by nin_kasi
For thousands of South Florida's illegal immigrants, the new year offers more uncertainty, discontent and, for many, resigned departure.
From farms in Homestead to day laborer pickup sites in Florida City and Fort Lauderdale, migrant workers are struggling to find work as Homeland Security steps up enforcement after a firestorm of public opinion derailed an immigration overhaul in Congress. That proposal, which failed in the summer, would have eventually legalized millions of undocumented workers.
Adding to the turmoil: a slowing economy.
More than two dozen South Florida employers and undocumented workers interviewed by The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald said they worry about tough times ahead. Evidence suggests immigrants are sending less money back to their families in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At Global Money Express in Little Havana, money transfers have dropped by a third in the past few weeks.
''This season is usually the one with the most remittances, but the flow has gone down,'' Global manager Roberto Carlos Tejeda said, adding that similar declines occurred at two other branches near downtown Miami and Little Havana, where many Central American immigrants live.
Several immigrants without work papers are seeing job opportunities dry up and said they're thinking of packing up and leaving employers who count on their cheap labor and seasonal work.
''The raids that have happened during the summer and early fall are a concern,'' said Larry Dunagan, a pole bean farmer in Homestead. Dunagan said labor shortages are possible if the crackdown intensifies.
''There will be a tremendous demand on labor, and a shortage is a concern because we deal with a perishable product,'' he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I guess those “in your face demonstrations with Mexican flags” worked out well for them....
The free market will take care of the problem. He will have to pay more for labor, and I will have to pay a nickle more the next time I have to buy "pole beans".
[Adding to the turmoil: a slowing economy.]
Job reductions will hurt illegals and they will be forced to return to the homeland. We are seeing this in AZ and they are whining big-time. (visualize world’s smallest violin).
Umm, they cannot prove that they are in the country legally because they are not in the country legally.
” Several immigrants without work papers are seeing job opportunities dry up and said they’re thinking of packing up and leaving employers who count on their cheap labor and seasonal work. “
Now which is it? Are the jobs drying up, or are illegal immigrants leaving employers who are counting on them? I’m sure whether the author decides on one or the other, or thinks we’re stupid enough that he can get away with propagandizing about two opposite crises a the same time, it will be the fault of the ULTRA Right-wing baby-killing Nazi racist conSERvatves (deep sigh).
Something’s working. Keep it up.
BUILD THE FENCE. BUILD IT WHOLE. BUILD IT NOW!!!!!!!
Here ya' go.
Well Said.
Pardon my french, but I wish the illegals and their employers only the greatest of difficulties in the coming year. But then, it’s an election year. All they have to do is buck up and wait it out, eh?
Yeah they pay no taxes and boost up their homeland economy while running up the tab on benefits that U.S. citizens pay.
Toodles!
Great read. Soothing.
However, it is pap meant to soften critics and fire up supporters of illegals. It’s an election year. Politicians have to kiss our butts, for a while, anyway.
I'd say there is much more smoke here than fire, as usual. Just another media campaign to try and pacify the population while the illegals continue to flood in by the millions, all the while trying to make you feel guilty for expecting your government to act like an adult instead of an emotional guilt ridden child.
Ohhhh, pass the tissue!
Oh, we’re so mean and cold and racist in this country, aren’t we?! They’d all better go back to their home countries, where things are no doubt much better.
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TS! My parents came through Ellis Island. I have no sympathy for these folks.
People need to do what used to be common (and some still do) which is go where the work is. So all the folks complaining about no work- there’s a bunch opening up lol
The only tax I would support is a fifty percent tax on foreign money orders.
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