Thread: The Honduran illegal immigration problem

Honduras fears U.S. immigration crackdown
President urges Washington to declare moratorium on deportations
Telemundo and MSNBC.com
Updated: 4:37 p.m. ET July 13, 2007

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - While attention is focused on the U.S. battle to stem the tide of illegal immigrants from Mexico, a federal effort to crack down on Hondurans is threatening the Honduran economy and sparking a crisis in U.S.-Honduran relations.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya visited Washington on Monday to lobby Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a moratorium on what he called “massive and selectiveâ€

He promised that the Honduran government would strenuously defend the rights of Honduran immigrants, without elaborating.

What bleepin' rights is this idiot speaking of?

How dare he come here and threaten the U.S.!!! And just what is it that he thinks he is "defending"??

Please, SOMEBODY tell me why it is that every 3rd world country believes they somehow have a stake in the U.S.?? Why do they see it as their right to be here?

If a Honduran enters the U.S. illegally, other than basic human rights, they have NO OTHER RIGHTS!!! And no other country's government has any basis for making demdands that we extend the same rights to their illegal absconders that we extend to U.S. citizens.

People of these 3rd world countries have gotten arrogant and cocky. And they need to be brought down a notch or two. This is NOT their country...they have no extended rights here...and they have no business making demands or threatening U.S. citizens in any way!!!

Please, SOMEBODY tell me why it is that every 3rd world country believes they somehow have a stake in the U.S.?? Why do they see it as their right to be here?

That is why DEPORTATIONS OF ALL ILLEGALS without exception is the only solution. All these 3rd world cretins have an entitlement mindset to our country. There can be no compromise...DEPORT THEM ALL.

found that Honduran immigrants, as many as 80 percent of them in the country illegally, make up nearly 3 percent of the day labor pool in Los Angeles.

We certainly don't need people standing on corners doing "pick-up" work! A study found a large portion of them are hired by homeowners who are too cheap to hire legitimate help! Day laborers certainly have NO positive impact on the country and are a blight! Loitering used to be against the law until people starting claiming racism. If they don't get work, a lot of them hang around drinking booze out of a paper bag.

a lot of them hang around drinking booze out of a paper bag.

Welcome to the new face of American cities, towns and villages.

If Honduras doesn't want their own illegals back I guess they probably won't even consider letting their anchorbabies come back either.
With all the remittances sent back to all these third-world homelands does anyone ever hear of the families using that money to better their community or start businesses back home? or do they live like royalty in their little towns lording it over the poor fools who aren't lucky enough to have an illegal in the USA supporting them?
I remember years ago reading how one family in a SA village was the envy of the neighborhood because their person in the US bought them a refrigerator-only they had NO electricity!!!! So it was pretty much USELESS.

Deportations of Hondurans are expected to reach 40,000 this year if the current pace holds, a sharp increase since 2005, when fewer than 19,000 were deported.

DEPORTATIONS??? For what reason? Just to get rid of them?

If all the illegals did not send so much money home, they would have better living conditions here, instead of turning our cities and towns into garbage dumps. Probably a lot of the legals too, if they are sending so much home.

I wonder why if Bush is so worried about the citizens's of Honduras and Mexico he does not send some educated people there way on a mission to teach them how to beef up there own damn economy and quit stealing from there people.
For Bush to steal from his people to give to other nations is just plain treason.
I find it funny that neither government wants to be honest and that includes the United States, they would just rather steal from the citizens. That way the rich stay rich.

[quote="zeezil"][size=117]Deportations of Hondurans are expected to reach 40,000 this year if the current pace holds, a sharp increase since 2005, when fewer than 19,000 were deported.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency estimates that 70 percent of the roughly 1 million Hondurans in the United States are here illegally, making them the second-largest illegal population behind Mexicans. Federal statistics indicate that a Honduran national tries to slip into the country illegally about every 15 minutes.

In Honduras, “the situation is dramatic,â€

[quote="telemundo"]Once here, they send most of their income back home to support their families, money that is vital to the Honduran economy.

The Honduran Foreign Ministry says legal and illegal immigrants in the United States are expected to send a record $2.8 billion this year — more than a quarter of Honduras’ gross domestic product.

More deportations means less money flows in from the United States, a blow officials in Honduras and other Central American countries say their economies are not equipped to absorb.

“Remittances are like an addiction,â€