January 19, 2008
Guess who's sick of illegal aliens
This is just priceless!
Apparently, illegal aliens put so much of a burden on local government -- from education to medical care, social services to crime -- that Mexico doesn't want its own citizens back.
A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say Arizona's new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state.
At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora - Arizona's southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money.
The law, which took effect Jan.1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don't have valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include suspension or loss of a business license.
Its intent is to eliminate or curtail the top draw for immigrants to this country - jobs.
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"How can they pass a law like this?" asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales.
"There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona," she said in Spanish.
"Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems" it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said.
"We are one family, socially and economically," she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.
Rep. Florencio Diaz Armenta, coordinator of the delegation, represents San Luis, south of Yuma, one of Arizona's agricultural hubs, which employs some 28,000 legal Mexican workers.
"What do we do with the repatriated?" he asked. "As Mexicans, we are worried. They are Mexicans but they are also people - fathers and mothers and young people with jobs" who won't have work in Sonora."
He said the Arizona law will lead to "disintegration of the family," as one "legal" Mexican parent remains in Arizona and the other returns to Mexico.
No jobs in Sonora? Not my problem, amigo.
Families ripped apart? Keep the family intact and go home with those who can't legally stay in the U.S.
Seems to me Mexican politicians need to get their house in order, reform their political system, fix their economy, work on improving things at home -- including dealing with the fact that the U.S. is no longer interested in serving as a relief valve, an excuse for refusing to deal with their dysfunctional nation.
The best part of this story is the underlying theme: Americans are cruel, heartless racists for not wanting illegal immigrants -- who apparently aren't wanted by their cruel, heartless (but not racist) fellow countrymen.
You'd have to have a heart of stone to not find that hilarious.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 19, 2008 09:52 AM
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The Mexican government aids and abets the criminal violation of US immigration law (8 U.S.C. 1325) and now it and its citizens are upset when the US enforces its laws against Mexican aliens illegally in the US. Mexican arrogance has no limits.
Posted by: William Garland at January 20, 2008 11:35 AM