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    Illegals Returning Home May Drive Down Wages, Crush Services

    Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers
    Friday, August 22, 2008

    By Kris Gutierrez

    DALLAS — Illegal immigrants are returning home to Mexico in numbers not seen for decades — and the Mexican government may have to deal with a crush on its social services and lower wages once the immigrants arrive.

    The Mexican Consulate's office in Dallas is seeing increasing numbers of Mexican nationals requesting paperwork to go home for good, especially parents who want to know what documentation they'll need to enroll their children in Mexican schools.

    "Those numbers have increased percentage-wise tremendously," said Enrique Hubbard, the Mexican consul general in Dallas. "In fact, it's almost 100 percent more this year than it was the previous two years."

    The illegal immigrant population in the U.S. has dropped 11 percent since August of last year, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Its research shows 1.3 million illegal immigrants have returned to their home countries.

    Some say illegal immigrants are leaving because a soft economy has led to fewer jobs, causing many laborers to seek work elsewhere.

    Others argue that a tough stance on immigration through law enforcement has spread fear throughout the illegal population.

    "There's no question there's a variety of suggestions that people are in fact returning," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "Remittances, which is the money immigrants send home to Mexico, have gone down dramatically over the past year. Again, probably part the economy, but also part enforcement, leading to fewer people being here."

    Advocates for immigrants are disturbed by the trend. Albert Ruiz, an organizer for the League of United Latin American Citizens, agrees that more undocumented immigrants are going home — but says families are being torn apart in the process.

    If a father is deported, Ruiz says, his family members in America are forced either to fend for themselves or follow him to a country where they've never even lived.

    "So the mother is saying we should return home with the breadwinner of the family to Mexico, and the children are saying, I don't want to leave, I'm a U.S. citizen, I don't know that country," said Ruiz.

    Mexican President Felipe Calderon plans to help returning nationals by providing food, medical care and temporary shelter if needed. But reports are already out in Mexico that the large number of illegal immigrants returning home could drive down wages and put pressure on social services — the same concerns many Americans have with illegals living and working in the U.S.

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    NOTE TO ALL ILLEGALS IN AMERICA:

    MEXICO IS YOUR LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.
    GO HOME AND MAKE IT HAPPEN.

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    -------------I.C.E. DEPORTATIONS-------------
    --2002----2003----2004----2005----2006----2007----2008(ends 9/30)

    116,154--145,935--162,014--151,579--185,431--276,912-- 273,291(8/15)

    ----------I.C.E. WORKPLACE ARRESTS----------
    2002----2003----2004----2005----2006-----2007----2008(ends 09/30)

    -510------517-------845--------1296------4383-------4940------5,012(08/15)
    (08/15 1,035 criminal, 3,977 admin)

    ------SOUTHWEST BORDER PATROL APPREHENSIONS-----
    --2001-----2002-----2003-----2004------2005------2006-----2007-----2008(9/30)

    1,235,718--929,809--905,065--1,139,282--1,189,108--1,071,972--858,638--611,721(7/31)

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    Illegal immigrants are returning home to Mexico in numbers not seen for decades — and the Mexican government may have to deal with a crush on its social services and lower wages once the immigrants arrive.
    Good! Now they will know how the United States has felt for the past twenty years!!
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    sorry, days of the free lunch are over!!

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    ...the children are saying, I don't want to leave...
    Hello... Since when do children run the family?

    Really, they don't want to go to bed, do their homework, get off the phone, come in before dark, put their stuff away... either!
    Waaaaaaaaa!

    They are irrational and that's one good reason they have parents.

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    Well, weep crocodile tears for Mexico. Now they know what the US has been facing and it ain't been fun in this country, perhaps to Mexico's surprise. Oh Mexico, also please leave the light on at night, we got a few more million that should be heading your way.
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    Re: Illegals Returning Home May Drive Down Wages, Crush Serv

    Quote Originally Posted by concernedmother
    If a father is deported, Ruiz says, his family members in America are forced either to fend for themselves or follow him to a country where they've never even lived.
    Hey man, if they have lived in California then they have already lived in Mexico, there is not much difference any more.
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    Illegals are still entering our country at a higher rate, than they are leaving.

    ------SOUTHWEST BORDER PATROL APPREHENSIONS-----
    --2001-----2002-----2003-----2004------2005------2006-----2007-----2008(9/30)

    1,235,718--929,809--905,065--1,139,282--1,189,108--1,071,972--858,638--611,721(7/31)

    If E-Verify becomes widely used, for ALL employees, then we should see an exodus. E-Verify is sorely needed to make the transition. Only 80,000 employers of over 7 million employers are presently using E-Verify, and they are only using E-Verify for new employees..

    They need to start busting contractors who are hiring illegals off of the streets. That, and more cities, and towns, running illegals out. Most cities don't have the gonads required to do this.

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    Hopefully these returning mexicans can DO something positive in ridding their country of corrupt politicians and changing their country for the better. God knows we spent more than enough money educating their anchors!

    As for the separation of family whine, that won't work anymore. Children belong with their parents and any parent who would abandon them is an animal who deserves nothing but contempt.

    Why is it when a family is separated because the father or mother sneak into the US, it's OK because he wants to work hard to support his family? But when it's time for these people to go home, it's a separation of families? Can't have it both ways.
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