Posted on 04/29/2010 9:11:24 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
PHOENIX (AP) - Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.
Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy.
"Nobody wants to pick us up," Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.
Diaz says he has too much to lose by staying - he's supporting a wife and infant son back home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
"They depend on me to survive," he says. "I'm not going to wait for police to come and arrest me."
Jose Armenta, a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico's western coast, is already planning to move to Utah within the next 20 days because of a combination of the economy and the new law.
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And some on the left think this is a bad thing . . .
Now that is one good idea! Seriously!
‘..., is already planning to move to Utah within the next 20 days...’
LOL, its like playing whack-a-mole. While AZ’s problems seem somewhat solved its just going to pop up somewhere else.
The left will attempt to hide the benefits of the reduction of illegals,
and if they can’t hide it, they’ll try to say that the benefits aren’t due to reduced illegal population.
Time for the Mexican people to fix their government.
Also waiting on stats from ERs maternity wards.
A few of us were posting this yesterday, and Rush in his last hour basically with tongue in cheek (I think) suggested doing this.
Neighboring states are going to have to get with the program.
Good.
I love it when a plan comes together!!
We hired a local company owned by Hispanics a while back to do some landscape clean-up work and they were recommended by some (Liberal) neighbor-friends of ours who used them regularly.
The company brought about five Mexicans (immigration status questionable) guys here to work for a couple of days and bosses only showed up at the beginning and end of the work. When they arrived, I told them where the bathrooms was, and during the day -- it was 100 degrees here that day-- I brought them a couple of pitchers of ice water and some glasses. I didn't think anything about it, it's just normal things to do for working men.
At the end of the job, one of the guys came over to me and said that they all wanted to "thank me" -- really "thank me". Huh? It turns out that they were very grateful for "being allowed to use our bathroom and for being given water to drink". He said that they usually are on their own to find a public bathroom or make due -- no one (including our neighbors) lets them use the house bathroom and no one that hires them ever "brings them water."
Those same Liberals who scream "racism" at Arizona's law, very often don't even treat Hispanics like human beings when they come to their house to work.
Love it!
“Send them to San Francisco” needs to be a national program!
I agree.
Any city/county/state with severe problems with illegals should start programs to send their illegals to GayFrisco, the Sicko city.
Well past time...
I like this one...
UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS SHARPELY IN ARIZONA LEADING THE NATIONAL RECOVERY
Az has been hit VERY hard by the housing bust, and recession. They have little to lose, and much to gain economically from this law enforcement measure.
Arizona (Texas, New Mexico and CA) should be picking up the border-crossers and paying for a one-way bus ticket to Washingon, DC. It is a Washington problem and Washington should be forced to deal with it. They’d have the Washington Mall filled with illegal squatters in about a month. Then maybe the hacks on both sides of the aisle would understand the magnitude of the problem.
Utah is also thinking about passing an immigration enforcement bill.
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