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Illegal immigrants live on edge of society, fearing deportation
Janesville Gazette ^ | Feb. 13, 2012 | ANNA MARIE LUX

Posted on 02/13/2012 5:10:19 PM PST by moonshinner_09

Ana shudders at what could have happened.

She has heard about people who walk and die in the desert, who freeze in the mountains and who drown in canals.

She knows that some suffocate in semitrailers or boxcars, where they are crammed so tightly they cannot turn.

She knows that others are beaten and raped by smugglers, who leave them to die.

Every year, migrants risk their lives to illegally cross the 2,100-mile border that separates Mexico and the United States, two neighboring nations that have one of the largest income gaps on Earth.

"I was lucky," said Ana, who lives in Rock County. "I've heard terrible stories about what can happen."

More than a decade ago, Ana left behind her mother and nine siblings in Puebla, south of Mexico City, to join her husband in the United States. He had crossed the border illegally to work and had planned to return after two years.

"It was hard to stay separated from each other," Ana recalled. "I told him that I can come and make money, too."

Ana's husband sent her cash to join him.

The 20-year-old woman traveled to the border town of Tijuana, where she stayed with cousins. She paid $2,000 to a coyote—the term for someone who smuggles people without legal papers across the border. The coyote gave Ana food and water for two days and showed her where to crawl under a border fence. On the other side, another smuggler drove her to Los Angeles.

"In my mind, I always thought I would go back," Ana said. "But now I'm a working mom. My children were born here."

Ana, who is separated from her husband, did not want to be identified. Nor did she want people to know where she works. Ana lives in the shadows

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A common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several forged identities for several thousand dollars each---- to vote and to ride the US gravy train under several names.

Jose Madrigal---the Washington state rapist---had some 30 identities.

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THE "JUST HERE FOR A BETTER LIFE" SCAM "Impoverished" illegals buy multiple fake identities for several thousand dollars each. Jose Madrigal---the Washington State rapist---had some 30 identities.

A family of four can have an income of $30,000 a year and still qualify for food stamps----with just one identity. A single mother, with two children who has a full time job that pays $7.25 an hour has an effective income of $48,000 a year when you add all the benefits she and her children receive from the government: food stamps, Medicaid coverage, subsidized child care, school lunch program, “Temporary” Assistance to Needy Families, subsidized housing, Earned Income Tax Credit, etc......with just one identity.

REFERENCE The Federal ID that Pays Illegal Aliens Billions -----November 28, 2011

......a recent analysis entitled, “Treasury Department Says Illegal Aliens Collection Billions in Tax Credits,” revealed that according to the Department of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the pay outs totaled $924 million. This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit.

EITC claims---can run up to over $3000 per claim. $20 billion is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals. Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities-----falsifying apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands.

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A new proposal would require people who claim the federal credit to have Social Security numbers to prove they're legal workers, is being offered as a way to help pay for extending the Social Security tax cut for most American wage-earners. It would trim federal spending by about $10 billion over a decade.

Imagine that----- for decades, we have been issuing tax refunds to people without a Social Security number.

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Hah. The border violators wont let a silly law stop them: (A) They'll use SS nos they got for all their anchor babies. (B) They buy SS nos from illegals who went back to their homelands. (C) The "impoverished" illegals.....just here for a better life....pay several thousand dollars for stolen SS nos and forged, fake documents.

21 posted on 02/13/2012 5:41:03 PM PST by Liz
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Formulaic leftist diatribe.
Let me just save these “journalists some time. Next occasion you have for writing one of these hand-wringing boo-hoo stories about deportations, just use the following template:

Poor

A) Pedro
B) Maria
C) Jose
D) Jesus Christo

is

A) working
B) babysitting her dozen helpless children
C) discovering a cure for cancer

when

A) thugs
B) goons
C)gestapo
D) roving hordes

from

A) the INS
B) government hit squads

show up at the

A) tiny but impeccable bungalow
B) business gates
C) lettuce patch

and haul away the terrified

A) mother of nine
B) hardworking man who was merely searching for a better life

amid

A) gasps of horror
B) howls of outrage
C) beatific calls for forgiveness for “they know not what they do”.


22 posted on 02/13/2012 5:41:46 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: moonshinner_09
I've known...and know some illegal aliens.

Worked with some back in SoCal in the late 70's...I never much thought about the illegal aspect of it..then. We pored concrete, we finished it. End of story.

Fast forward a few years....I saw and heard of White, Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, etc...Americans..losing their jobs to illegal aliens. Brick layers, pool cleaners, roofers, plumbers, concrete workers, painters, gardeners, etc.........

They came here...and our country did NOTHING to stop them!

They took American's job's and our country did NOTHING to stop them.

And now our country PAY'S them to stay here????

Our "Representative's" have sold us down the river.......

23 posted on 02/13/2012 5:41:50 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Living in fear of deportation must be terrible. Go back home to Mexico.


24 posted on 02/13/2012 5:48:05 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: moonshinner_09
In Mexico, we are very poor, but at least we are free. Here, people who do not have their documents live every day with apprehension.

That's the way it should be for those who break the law, and there is an obvious solution. I wonder why the tear jerking article doesn't mention the racism and class oppression in Mexico.

25 posted on 02/13/2012 5:48:33 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: moonshinner_09
These criminal aliens who have broken into our country piss me off to no end. Everyone of them needs to go. Period.

This is a disgrace to our proud country.

26 posted on 02/13/2012 5:50:45 PM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: moonshinner_09
Looking forward to the further articles in the series such as:

Fugitives live on the edge of society, fearing apprehension

What part of "illegal" is unclear?

27 posted on 02/13/2012 5:56:49 PM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: moonshinner_09
Quoting “Marta” from the article:
“One day, this will be over, and there will be a solution, maybe for all of us to go back to Mexico or maybe for us to stay here.”

Hey Marta, I want all illegal aliens to go back to Mexico, Canada, Iran, England, Cuba, Poland, China, Ireland, Somalia, Kenya etc...

We have our own, home grown, criminal class, and have no need to import even more corruption, in the name of diversity...

28 posted on 02/13/2012 6:12:14 PM PST by sarasmom
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To: moonshinner_09

I suppose her kids think its ok to use fake or stolen documents, and it does not make you a criminal, in their world.

Yeah, let an American try that same crap in Mexico. The ones who do it and get by with it are in the drug trade and are well able to pay the bribes it requires


29 posted on 02/13/2012 6:26:16 PM PST by Figment
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To: moonshinner_09
then GO HOME and be free you stooopid cow you!!!

30 posted on 02/13/2012 6:37:57 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: moonshinner_09

That’s normal - most law breakers live life waiting for the other shoe to drop. It is small consolation to those follow the law.


31 posted on 02/13/2012 6:38:24 PM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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To: moonshinner_09
"White people say we come here to steal their jobs," Ana said.

Hey Ana, you may have missed the fact that illegals take jobs from non-white Americans too.

Or do only white people offend you?

32 posted on 02/13/2012 6:41:15 PM PST by skeeter
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To: moonshinner_09

She should then go back to Mexico, find work, make sure her 3 children learn English, then make preparations to return to the United States legally. This is a poor, poor story. The children won’t be taken from her, she can take them with her to Mexico.


33 posted on 02/13/2012 6:46:36 PM PST by tillacum
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To: moonshinner_09

GTFOOMC


34 posted on 02/13/2012 6:50:19 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: moonshinner_09

GTFO you south of the border bs artist !!! Stop bitching just GTFO.


35 posted on 02/13/2012 6:52:18 PM PST by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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To: moonshinner_09

I’m so tired of this ‘shadows’ meme. I’ve known a lot of illegal aliens (most in violation of their visas) and none were living in ‘shadows’ and none were fearful. I even knew one who had the unmitigated gall to show up at my place every friday night and stay through Sunday evening.


36 posted on 02/13/2012 6:52:54 PM PST by posterchild (I'm old enough to remember when journalists bothered to look things up on wikipedia.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Why? I just saw on BBC that Mexico has a booming economy. Jobs going begging. The illegals in the US should be streaming across the border by now.


37 posted on 02/13/2012 6:53:24 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Never Regret Anything Because At One Time It Was Exactly What You Wanted")
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To: moonshinner_09
In Mexico, we are very poor, but at least we are free. Here, people who do not have their documents live every day with apprehension.

Chica I have news for you, if you are a foreigner and don't have your documents in Mexico they put you in jail for several years.

BTW Mexicans have to carry documents in Mexico

38 posted on 02/13/2012 6:54:49 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Would you sing if someone sucked YOU up the vacuum cleaner hose?)
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To: moonshinner_09

good


39 posted on 02/13/2012 7:14:31 PM PST by hecht (Murray use your coaster)
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To: moonshinner_09

Oh my gosh. They’ve been “living in the shadows”, by the millions, in the southwest....for YEARS now.

This reporter..this is ALL she could come up with??? A retreaded retreaded retreaded story???


40 posted on 02/13/2012 7:18:10 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (PRAY for this country like your life depends on it....)
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