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....”
I know it changed the opinion of a moonbat in my office. When the illegals marched in downtown Chicago a few months ago, waving scores of Mexican flags, we were watching the spectacle from our office windows. A co-worker was standing next to me, silent. Then, after several minutes, she turned to me, shaking her head, and said, with apparent sadness in her voice: “They really don’t want to become Americans, do they? They want to be Mexicans, and they want America to become Mexico.”
She’s still a moonbat (a big Obambi supporter). But now she wants the illegals to leave. Change often takes time. But, it happens.
Fewer job opportunities, longer periods without work = fewer dollars to MEXICO!!!!!
Watch MEXICO begin demanding more!!!!
The American People have demanded these laws be enforced and finally, very ruluctantly I'll admit, some are.
Other community pols are getting the message from their voters - stop granting benefits, drivers' licenses and support for businesses who HIRE ILLEGALS!
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As far as I can tell, most of the liberal push to give amnesty to illegals is based on the premise that they are little more than slave labor, and we all need slaves.
Have we learned so little since the Civil War?
Another thread here yesterday said that the Mexican government arrests 180,000 illegal aliens from Central America a year.
We should ask what they are doing and copy it. Oh, we should copy their immigration laws too.
Bingo.
The Media are the Enemy. It is difficult sometimes to ascribe stupidity as opposed to malicious intent, but in most cases of the LEFT, it is the same thing, like this article.
Good tagline by the way. I continually tell people that every American citizen for the last forty years has been instructed explicitly, and with public money, on how to make kids. Even offer to draw pictures. Thus DO know where responsibility lies.
Instead of a DOLLAR more to cover your share of the illegal picker's medical care. I'll take that deal.
We’ve managed to squeeze a few good immigration votes out of Debbie Stabenow too. Gotta keep the pressure on or she starts to slip.
With the new home construction business in the pits, there is less incentive for illegal aliens to continue to come to the US. If we could figure out how to control hiring by landscapers and restaurant owners, the problem would be pretty well solved.
Y'know, that drought thing may not be ALL bad...
Undocumented wives. (hookers)
Undocumented husbands. (rapists)
Undocumented taxi drivers. (car jackers)
Undocumented pharmacists. (drug pushers)
Undocumented bank withdrawers. (bank robbers)
Undocumented treasury workers. (counterfeiters)
When will the injustice end!?
ping
In my opinion that scene is what got most Americans off their cans on this issue. The absolute stupidity of the organizers was amazing. I think these farmers need to start researching some fruit picking machines.
If they are using cheap labor to keep prices down; why is it that the prices are up in the grocery stores?
The illegals, as well as our polical leadership, are finally coming to realize that the American people are beyond digusted with illegal immigration and the insult to our nation it represents.
Be sure to write the authors of this piece to let them know how wonderful this news is I told them it was music to my ears.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND HELENA POLEO
achardy@MiamiHerald.com
I’ve been thinking about sneaking into another country illegally. I hope someone there takes a job away from a citizen and gives it to me. Or, better yet, that they provide me with welfare and health care benefits. Once I get established, I’ll invite all my relatives, too.
I hope that if I sneak into Mexico or Guatemala or India or Japan or China, that things work out well for me. I’d hate to have to worry like the poor illegal aliens described in this article.
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