Thread: FL-States Take New Tack on Illegal Immigration

June 9, 2008

States Take New Tack on Illegal Immigration

By DAMIEN CAVE
MILTON, Fla. — Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more law-abiding, emptier and whiter.

Many of the Hispanic immigrants who came in 2004 to help rebuild after Hurricane Ivan have either fled or gone into hiding. Churches with services in Spanish are half-empty. Businesses are struggling to find workers. And for Hispanic citizens with roots here — the foremen and entrepreneurs who received visits from the police — the losses are especially profound.

“It was very hard because the community is very small, and to see people who came to eat here all the time then come and close the business,â€

Excuse me. If they are foreign born, there might be a chane that they are illegal. Why would you focus on an AMERICAN CITIZEN?

Identity theft is a serious crime and should not be downplayed.