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Posted on 10/06/2011 8:30:57 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
Employers in Alabama’s Marshall County are hiring new workers following the stepped-up federal and state enforcement of immigration laws.
“It is amazing to see the effects” as undocumented workers leave town, said Chuck Ellis, a member of Albertville’s city council.
Immigration is a hot-button issue that is testing the skills of candidates as diverse as President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. They’re being further tested by a wave of new state laws, and by some limited federal enforcement, which are giving voters real-world tests of rival policies.
On Monday, for example, the Wayne Farms chicken-processing plant in Marshall County held a jobs fair to fill slots that opened when many Hispanic workers left the county. The line “was probably equivalent to a couple of blocks … It was a largely Anglo and black group,” but also included Hispanics, said Ellis.
“It is tough work, very tough … my momma did it for a while, I’ve had friends who did it,” said Ellis, who also works as a local sheriff.
The new reform measures are also reducing classroom crowding in the 4,000-student school district, said Ellis. Roughly 150 kids of migrant workers have departed the district, and perhaps 500 more will leave as enforcement continues, he said. “It is tough on those kids,” but their departure will free up teachers to work with other Hispanic kids that need to learn English, he said.
“A large proportion of the illegal Hispanic community has moved … self-deportation is a real thing,” said Ellis. Because of the exodus, the county’s unemployment rate has dropped to from about 9.5 percent to roughly 9.3 percent over the last several weeks, he said.
The reforms in Alabama, and similar changes in Arizona and other states and cities that have begun enforcing immigration laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
One of the NPR radio stations in Montgomery said that te "unintended" consequences was that Montgomery schools were losing students.
I thought to myself: no those are intended consequences here in Alabama.
[ The new reform measures are also reducing classroom crowding in the 4,000-student school district, said Ellis. Roughly 150 kids of migrant workers have departed the district, and perhaps 500 more will leave as enforcement continues, he said. “It is tough on those kids,” but their departure will free up teachers to work with other Hispanic kids that need to learn English, he said. ]
GOOD! So the legal immigrants and their children will be able to learn english which is an invaluable tool for helping realize the American Dream.
Win-Win!
Doing jobs Americans will do!
(And had been doing for decades until the arrival of large numbers of illegals willing to work for lower pay.)
Name That Tune!
They got a name for the winners of the world,
They call Alabama the `Crimson Tide,’
Maybe they’re just moving to Ohio. I see more all the time.
The illegals should just move to Texas. Gov. Perry, being a “compassionate conservative,” will ensure that they are welcomed with open arms and that their children receive a fine education at a low cost.
Deacon Blues by Steely Dan
Where is Arizona Eric on this one? Oh yes, his panties are bunching over a little matter of walking weapons.
Thank you for this article. On the whole it is a largely encouraging “we told you so” type of notice to politicians.
Let me comment on two statements by the sheriff,
“It is tough work, very tough...” Give me a break, a buddy and I spent two summers at age 14 and 15 processing chickens and we were lily whites with a bit of a summer tan (to say nothing of being “illegally” hired).
“...many Hispanic workers left the county.”
He did not say “left the country” because he doesn’t know that to be a fact. It is unlikely these folks headed south to the hell hole with their families, so there may be no “self-deportation” at all. It is far more likely they headed in another direction to a sanctuary locale that offers benefits (taxpayer monies).
That is keerect sir! Your prize, dinnner for four.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312208
President Wilson and President Eisenhower deported millions of illegal Mexicans to open jobs for returning servicemen. The last mass deportation, Operation Wetback under Eisenhower, which was to deport 12 million illegal Mexicans, was halted due to the advent of television news. Prime time video of hysterical women and children and pleading men was too much for the electorate. But both deportations succeeded in providing significant jobs to Americans.
This doing-the-jobs-American-won’t-due is because welfare keeps people from working. Most illegals can’t get welfare or will work off the books and take welfare. Off-the-books labor is not only cheaper because the hourly rate is lower, but there are no taxes, fees, insurance or legal restrictions. A legal ten dollars per hour is really 15-20/hour in cost to the employer, depending on what municipality you’re in. But $7.50/hr to an illegal is just $7.50/hr and they’re all *sses and elbows while they earn it too. (If they’re not, they’re told not to come back.)
The schools, by-the-way, like the hospitals, are paid for by taxes and are for the benefit of citizens. If we allow illegals to flood the schools and hospitals each taxpaying citizen must except less for their money. This is wealth redistribution.
A blueprint for all 57 States, including Mexifornia...
Yummy! Dinner and and internal scrubbing to go with it...
Call me Deacon Blues.
Best song off the best album by Steely Dan.
Deacon Blues.
Unfortunately Fagan meant it as a slap at Alabama. Donald Fagen told Rolling Stone magazine: “Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, ‘You mean it’s like, ‘They call these cracker a—holes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I’m this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?’ and I said ‘Yeah!’ He said, ‘Cool, let’s finish it.’”
A few years back I was a Program Manager in Ashtabula Ohio and working on the Chevrolet Avalanche which was being built in Leon Guanajuato Mexico about 1000 miles south of the border.
I had never heard of it so I ask one of the better English speakers who worked for me if the had heard of it.
He told me "yes, I am from there."
I asked how many people in my prototype launch group were from Leon and 30 hands went up.
How ironic that these people were building parts that would be shipped to their home town to be installed in Chevys that were to be imported to the USA.
“Maybe they’re just moving to Ohio”
Bingo. They aren’t leaving this country. They are just packing up and heading to another state. Maryland will be a ton more of them as well.
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