Little-Acorn
07-25-2010, 07:12 PM
Since this is from Reuters, of course the phrase "Illegal aliens" never appears, though it is the most accurate (except possibly for "illegal invaders") description for the subject of the article. Neither does any mention of jobs, schooling, welfare payments, medical services etc. stolen by the illegal aliens, or of the decades-old Federal laws routinely broken by them to do it.
But at least Reuters actually got the word "illegal" in, possibly for the first time in decades. There may be hope yet.
My further comments in italics below.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_immigration_arizona
Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of crackdown
by Tim Gaynor
Sun Jul 25, 1:43 pm ET
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena 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 Wendi 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."
(Sometimes life just plain sucks when you're a habitual lawbreaker, Lori. Especially when the people around you start to actually OBEY the law. Guess what: There's a reason for that! They're actually trying to get you to start OBEYING the law! -LA)
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.
(As expected, no mention from Reuters of the fact that this law has been imposed for decades, and in every state of the union, as a Federal law. But if I expected relevance or vital detail from the mainstream media, I'd never read Reuters at all - LA)
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.
The U.S. government estimates 100,000 unauthorized migrants left Arizona after the state passed an employer sanctions law three years ago requiring companies to verify workers' status using a federal computer system. There are no figures for the number who have left since the new law passed in April.
(And no mention of Reuters' own article from a few months ago, documenting the fact that illegals were leaving in droves before the new law even took effect - LA)
Some are heading back to Mexico or to neighboring states. Others are staying put and taking their chances.
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 clients 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 (Lori, are you telling us that the majority Hispanics in Arizona who SUPPORT this law, are trying to drive themselves out of the state??? - LA) and they have succeeded even before the law even comes into effect," said Aguilar, 28, a mother of three young children 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."
(Funny, the folks in law-abiding neighborhoods aren't having this problem. - LA)
LEGAL RESIDENTS FLEE
Arizona straddles the principal highway for human and drug smugglers heading into the United States from Mexico.
The state's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed the law in April in a bid to curb violence and cut crime stemming from illegal immigration.
Polls show the measure is backed by a solid majority of Americans and by 65 percent of Arizona voters in this election year for some state governors, all of the U.S. House of Representatives and about a third of the 100-seat Senate.
Opponents say the law is unconstitutional and a recipe for racial profiling. It is being challenged in seven lawsuits, including one filed by President Barack Obama's administration, which wants a preliminary injunction to block the law.
A federal judge heard arguments from the lawyers for the Justice Department and Arizona on Thursday and could rule at any time.
The fight over the Arizona law has complicated the White House's effort to break the deadlock with Republicans in Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration law, an already difficult task before November's elections.
While the law targets undocumented migrants, legal residents and their U.S.-born children are getting caught up in the rush to leave Arizona.
Mexican housewife Gabriela Jaquez, 37, said she is selling up and leaving for New Mexico with her husband, who is a legal resident, and two children born in Phoenix.
"Under the law, if you transport an illegal immigrant, you are committing a crime," she said as she sold children's clothes at a yard sale with three other families. "They could arrest him for driving me to the shops."
(That's true, Gabby, and has been for decades. And your point is...?? - LA)
Lunaly Bustillos, a legal resident from Mexico, hoped to sell some clothes, dumbbells and an ornamental statue on Sunday before her family heads for Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Monday.
"It makes me sad and angry too because I feel I have the right to be here," said Bustillos, 17, who recently graduated from high school in Phoenix.
(You do have the right to be here, Lunaly. Have you discussed this fact with your family, particularly your parent(s) whom I take it are illegal alien(s)? Have you asked them what their plans were, when they brought a child who could legally live in Arizona while they themselves couldn't? What did they tell you they intended to happen to you, if/when they were arrested and deported as the law has required for decades?
It is certainly wrong for you to be torn from your family, though that seems to be what your parents set up, when they brought you here legally. They knew going in, that they themselves were subject to deportation any time. What did they say they intended to happen to you, in the event they had to leave? Did your parents intend to just dump you, a minor child, and leave you abandoned and on your own? Did they intend to force you to leave Arizona with them? And, did they explain why they chose to put you in such a predicament? -LA)
But at least Reuters actually got the word "illegal" in, possibly for the first time in decades. There may be hope yet.
My further comments in italics below.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_immigration_arizona
Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of crackdown
by Tim Gaynor
Sun Jul 25, 1:43 pm ET
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena 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 Wendi 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."
(Sometimes life just plain sucks when you're a habitual lawbreaker, Lori. Especially when the people around you start to actually OBEY the law. Guess what: There's a reason for that! They're actually trying to get you to start OBEYING the law! -LA)
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.
(As expected, no mention from Reuters of the fact that this law has been imposed for decades, and in every state of the union, as a Federal law. But if I expected relevance or vital detail from the mainstream media, I'd never read Reuters at all - LA)
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.
The U.S. government estimates 100,000 unauthorized migrants left Arizona after the state passed an employer sanctions law three years ago requiring companies to verify workers' status using a federal computer system. There are no figures for the number who have left since the new law passed in April.
(And no mention of Reuters' own article from a few months ago, documenting the fact that illegals were leaving in droves before the new law even took effect - LA)
Some are heading back to Mexico or to neighboring states. Others are staying put and taking their chances.
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 clients 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 (Lori, are you telling us that the majority Hispanics in Arizona who SUPPORT this law, are trying to drive themselves out of the state??? - LA) and they have succeeded even before the law even comes into effect," said Aguilar, 28, a mother of three young children 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."
(Funny, the folks in law-abiding neighborhoods aren't having this problem. - LA)
LEGAL RESIDENTS FLEE
Arizona straddles the principal highway for human and drug smugglers heading into the United States from Mexico.
The state's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed the law in April in a bid to curb violence and cut crime stemming from illegal immigration.
Polls show the measure is backed by a solid majority of Americans and by 65 percent of Arizona voters in this election year for some state governors, all of the U.S. House of Representatives and about a third of the 100-seat Senate.
Opponents say the law is unconstitutional and a recipe for racial profiling. It is being challenged in seven lawsuits, including one filed by President Barack Obama's administration, which wants a preliminary injunction to block the law.
A federal judge heard arguments from the lawyers for the Justice Department and Arizona on Thursday and could rule at any time.
The fight over the Arizona law has complicated the White House's effort to break the deadlock with Republicans in Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration law, an already difficult task before November's elections.
While the law targets undocumented migrants, legal residents and their U.S.-born children are getting caught up in the rush to leave Arizona.
Mexican housewife Gabriela Jaquez, 37, said she is selling up and leaving for New Mexico with her husband, who is a legal resident, and two children born in Phoenix.
"Under the law, if you transport an illegal immigrant, you are committing a crime," she said as she sold children's clothes at a yard sale with three other families. "They could arrest him for driving me to the shops."
(That's true, Gabby, and has been for decades. And your point is...?? - LA)
Lunaly Bustillos, a legal resident from Mexico, hoped to sell some clothes, dumbbells and an ornamental statue on Sunday before her family heads for Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Monday.
"It makes me sad and angry too because I feel I have the right to be here," said Bustillos, 17, who recently graduated from high school in Phoenix.
(You do have the right to be here, Lunaly. Have you discussed this fact with your family, particularly your parent(s) whom I take it are illegal alien(s)? Have you asked them what their plans were, when they brought a child who could legally live in Arizona while they themselves couldn't? What did they tell you they intended to happen to you, if/when they were arrested and deported as the law has required for decades?
It is certainly wrong for you to be torn from your family, though that seems to be what your parents set up, when they brought you here legally. They knew going in, that they themselves were subject to deportation any time. What did they say they intended to happen to you, in the event they had to leave? Did your parents intend to just dump you, a minor child, and leave you abandoned and on your own? Did they intend to force you to leave Arizona with them? And, did they explain why they chose to put you in such a predicament? -LA)