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Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of crackdown Nicaraguan mother Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block. A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants. "Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered." The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday. The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico. It makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime and requires state and local police, during lawful contact, to investigate the status of anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant. * In a sign of a gathering exodus, Mexican businesses from grocers and butcher shops to diners and beauty salons have shut their doors in recent weeks as their owners and leave. On Saturday and Sunday, Reuters counted dozens of impromptu yard sales in Latino neighborhoods in central and west Phoenix/ "They wanted to drive Hispanics out of Arizona and they have succeeded even before the law even comes into effect," said Aguilar, 28, a mother of three young who was also offering a few cherished pictures and a stereo at one of five sales on the same block. She said she had taken in just $20 as "everyone is selling and nobody wants to buy By Tim Gaynor ( end excerpt(s) -from news) ________________________ What a paradox, surely some of the same people who want them gone, must have hired them, or they would not have had a job. * It's kinda reminiscent of the round up of Japanese during World War II. and not much different from the era of the 'black codes" and jim crow segregation mentality.. that barred blacks from many areas and other things, and both the Japanese and Blacks were American citizens. guess it shows, you can't put anything past what some Americans will do, and repeat doing if they can. this same process was done to Mexicans in the 1930's, and the process repeats itself in 2010. I'm not advocating illegal immigration, unfortunately, a great many people welcomed them here, in their desire to get cheap labor.. as long as they could afford to 'use" them.. now they toss them out like a dirty dish towel, they can't afford to use anymore. they ere happy to let them cook dinner, raise their and look after their , have a room in the family home and anything else they wanted to gain benefit from. When Arizona was making a killing with mexican labor to build all those houses in the 1990's and early 2000's, they loved Mexicans, and they'd pick them up in front of hardware stores, ask them if they had friends who wanted to come and work for them, and they solicited them, as if they were an available cheap labor servant pool, they could use and treat any way they wanted to. but, also, with the people being Illegal, they knew one day they would get caught, some married Americans some had American born babies, and some sent money to Mexico and bought homes and land, and set up businesses, the unfortunate situation is, some had many babies and put those babies on a variety of state resources, by a variety of means. But many are simply hard working people. but then there is the gang element, where some of the gang mentality dominated some areas, and many things. but even on the drug avenue, there were many Americans hunting down Mexicans looking to buy drugs, so.. this is a mixed problem, because it was solicited as much is it was an illegal intrusion into the US, but the solicitation was like a magnet.. silently inviting more to crash the borders looking for opportunity. it was up to the Illegals, to police themselves, to curb violence and crime and the escalation of it, because they knew it was attracting high level attention and frustrating the American citizens, but they did not do enough to try and make their areas crime free zones. Mexico has some responsibility in this mess as well, they are high on the list of trading partners, with the US, which means they did not put their money to use, to build for their people, yet they boast a high number of millionaires in their country, but they don't invest to build things, when they know how to do it, or they could not have come here and built things for those who hired them to do so. The governing bodies in Mexico, let the cartels go crazy, and they let corruption defeat their system of governing. and then they do not develop the infrastructure of industrial things, to truly capitalize on attracting industry. It's such a mess of a situation, where there are few innocent parties in the over-all. |
