Posted on 01/27/2008 9:40:37 AM PST by Technoman
PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) One month after Arizona introduced a law cracking down on businesses which employ illegal immigrants, Latino workers are fleeing the state and companies are laying off employees in droves, officials and activists say.
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BREAKING NEWS: LAW BREAKERS FORCED TO OBEY THE LAW
Market wages for Americans, and money that will stay in the local economy rather than going south of the border.
Generally, the people on the inside of one on these things are called "prisoners."
Prisoners are provided with jobs and the ability to make purchases of necessities, and reasonable healthcare and recreation opportunities, but have no actual freedom.
Could they send in Manic Hispanic?
However:
"Workers are going back to Mexico or to other states, Reza said. He predicted small businesses forced to lay off skilled employees like welders will now pay them in cash, creating a black economy
The underground economy is going to take hold now, and there will be less money for the state," Reza said.
I guess lawbreaking employers still plan to be lawbreaking employers. Now they just plan on hiring under the table. They get what they deserve.
Yep, I can vouch for that. Especially in the areas surrounding "NUEVO ORLEANS".
Yep, that’s how it works. All they want these people for is the vote right now. And they will use the illegal vote if they can get away with it.
“Hispanic panic”
I like that, it has a nice ring.
Yeah. Good thing it doesn't rhyme with "Negro," or people would think you're a racist.
Juan McCaine : Lawbreakers , Help is on the way !
That was a good video.
Imagine if every single state did this.
Illegal immigration would be wiped out in one swell foop
through attrition, like Fred said.
Excerpt: http://leadershipforchange.org/awardees/awardee.php3?ID=28
Reza dreams of a day when Tonatierra can create day labor centers throughout the city [Phoenix]. Tonatierra and Reza are also working for the electoral redistricting of Phoenix in order to increase Latino political representation. Tonatierra is also preparing for the future through a new program called Xinachtli, which works with public schools to teach the traditions, culture, art and science of indigenous people. We are in three school districts now, but we hope to offer this in many others, so that students all young people will learn, for instance, about the advanced mathematics of the Aztecs calendar, which was based on the rhythm of sun and stars. Were already seeing the lives of kids changed by this. So many kids enter the school district unbalanced, economically, spiritually. Were preparing a crop of kids for the future. What does Xinachtli mean? In the Aztec language, says Reza, it means seed.
“What does Xinachtli mean? In the Aztec language, says Reza, it means seed.”
Oh yee ha.
Do I hear birds singing?
Interesting. As the ‘indigenous’ influences in Arizona come from the Tohono O’odham, Pima, Apache and Navajo tribes (and a few others). I guess Sr. Reza couldn’t be bothered to find an adequate name from one of their languages.
” I like that, it has a nice ring.”
The majority of Hispanic AMERICANS in Arizona supported the AZ referendum banning welfare benefits for illegals and they support the current employer sanction crack-down. What we don’t support are race-baiting comments like yours which cast all AMERICANS of Hispanic descent as anti-American Azatlaners.
Hello!
Look at the title of the post!
In Phoenix, what I’ve seen varies and is not obvious because unlike in California, most illegals are spread out, they don’t congregate in ghettos.
That being said, one such, who owned a small grocery store catering mostly to Mexicans, had to sell out to a competitor who just closed the store down. I noted that nothing is on sale in the competitors store anymore, for several reasons.
The ex-store owner is going back to the underground economy, where he made the money to open his store in the first place. He has too many reasons to stay, including most of his family are legal. The biggest effect is that cash landscaping and repair will get cheaper again.
There are more Mexican prostitutes working now, but for the most part not street walking, but in the suburbs. And the price of illegal drugs is expected to take a sharp dive. Both of these are of concern to some parents of teenage boys I know, who no longer allow them to associate with Mexicans.
The price of fake IDs is skyrocketing, if you can get them at all. That is a lot less important than you might imagine, because there are a lot of citizens that abhor IDs as well. Most of the illegal ID traffic is for Mexicans who are too invested locally to leave, and who can shell out a few thousand dollars for quality fakes. With that kind of money, ID theft is going to be endemic.
In larger families, the legal members are becoming fronts for the illegals. For instance, a man who looks 35 has an ID that says he is 60, or a 28 year old woman whose ID says she is 16. She works and goes to high school at the same time.
One way around the situation for employers is to have an employee who works at home. He produces three or four times as much product as the typical employee. Another is the employee who puts in a double shift, but looks different depending on the time of day. As long as his ID says he, or they, are legal, they are.
But again, much of this is invisible unless you are either involved in it in some way, or know somebody who knows. It will be a long time before much can be said one way or another.
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