Thread: Arizona law pressures immigrants to move

Arizona law pressures immigrants to move
Jacques Billeaud

PHOENIX — Parents are pulling students out of school. Construction workers are abandoning their jobs. Families are hastily moving out of apartments.

Two months after Arizona enacted a law punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, the law is already achieving one of its goals: Scores of immigrants are fleeing to other states or back to their Latin American homelands.

Gaby Espinoza, who has been unemployed since November, is among those affected. She gave up looking for a job because of the law and may have to return to Mexico.

Espinoza’s husband works here legally, but the law means that employers must ask her for papers, and she faces the daily fear of being deported.

“There’s no work over there in Mexico,â€

[quote]ere’s no work over there in Mexico,â€

[quote]The departure of so many students upsets people like Jackie Doerr, who is principal at Andalucia Primary School, which is in a separate district in west Phoenix. She said teachers had made progress teaching English to many of the children.

“They have to leave and start all over again. It’s just so frustrating when you see how far they have come,â€

Well, it was their government that told them to come to the US and have babies. Maybe they can go home and make the government give them free welfare benefits.

NoBueno wrote:

[quote][quote]The departure of so many students upsets people like Jackie Doerr, who is principal at Andalucia Primary School, which is in a separate district in west Phoenix. She said teachers had made progress teaching English to many of the children.

“They have to leave and start all over again. It’s just so frustrating when you see how far they have come,â€

[quote]“There’s no work over there in Mexico,â€

[quote="MyAmerica"]NoBueno wrote:

[quote][quote]The departure of so many students upsets people like Jackie Doerr, who is principal at Andalucia Primary School, which is in a separate district in west Phoenix. She said teachers had made progress teaching English to many of the children.

“They have to leave and start all over again. It’s just so frustrating when you see how far they have come,â€

The construction industry says some of its workers are leaving, too, for California, Nevada, Colorado or Texas.

Wouldn't make any sense to go to CO unless there laws have changed.

Isn't Nevada right behind AZ in changing their laws?

Texas and CA, yes, I see the sign "SANCTUARY" hanging like bait on a fishing pole!

Here's the line that really stuck out to me:

Business groups have challenged the law. While awaiting a ruling, prosecutors agreed to hold off bringing cases to court until at least March 1.

Well now, let's see. The 9th circuit just upheld the challenge to the law, and guess what? tomorrow is the 1st of March. IT'S ENFORCEMENT TIME FOLKS!

Let's see some cases run through the AZ courts and then prosecute some illegal employers; and best yet, make an example of them!

CNN did their story on this tonight, and again it was so bias and distorted facts. When will there be given equal time on this in the media, the IA supports are afraid to let the fact come out.