Thread: No Amnesty In Arizona

Investor's Business Daily
No Amnesty In Arizona
Tuesday February 19, 6:55 pm ET

Immigration Reform: The problem of illegal immigration seems to take care of itself if laws are obeyed and enforced. For the latest evidence, we turn to Sen. John McCain's home state.
Arizona is seeing signs of a flight by Mexican immigrants out of the state and back across the border. Local reformers credit the state's recent crackdown on illegal immigration. Indeed, sanctions against employers are playing a key role.

The new state law -- which goes into effect March 1 -- punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants by suspending their business license for 10 days on the first violation and revoking it for a second offense.

At the same time, the county sheriff in Phoenix has been helping enforce federal immigration laws by rounding up people living there illegally.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has given arrest authority to many deputies. So in the course of a traffic stop, illegal aliens without driver's licenses for the first time now stand a real chance of being deported.

In response to the crackdown, illegals are flooding the Mexican consulate in Phoenix to obtain papers to move back across the border and enroll their children in school.

The consulate is reporting an "unusual" 400% increase in parents applying for Mexican birth certificates for their anchor babies and other documents they need to return to Mexico.

They're also requesting a paper known as a "menaje de casa," which allows illegals living in the U.S. to cross into Mexico without paying a tax on their furniture and other household goods.

How charming that they follow their own immigration rules, but not ours. And how telling that the Mexican government makes it hard for its citizens to return, while making it easier for them to break into our country by handing out thousands of maps to border tunnels and water tanks in the Arizona desert.

Some immigrants' rights groups are claiming U.S. citizens, not just illegals, are crossing into Mexico, because the Arizona economy is flagging, and construction and retail jobs are drying up. That makes little sense. Americans don't flee to Mexico to find work.

Fact is, some 30,000 illegal immigrants plan to leave Arizona sometime before March 1, when the state's tough new immigration laws kick in, according to a survey conducted earlier this month by Chicanos Por La Causa. And CPLC can hardly be accused of anti-immigrant bias -- it's a nonprofit immigrant-support group.

State lawmakers who pushed through the crackdown are already heralding its success. The desired effect was having illegals see that the red carpet would no longer be rolled out for them.

Arizona has borne the brunt of the Mexican invasion, and its citizens are fed up. According to a study last year, 12% of Arizona workers are in the U.S. illegally -- the highest share in the country.

Illegal immigrants and their families are not only a burden on public services, but many of them join gangs and commit violent crimes while living here.

Amnesty advocates argue it's not feasible to deport millions of illegals. They say it's impossible to round up 12 million people and kick them out of the country.

But the out-migration in Arizona proves you don't have to. Just making a strong show of law enforcement at the work site and on the street corners is enough to discourage illegals from staying.

Arizona is a model for other states being overrun by illegals. If they just send a clear message to immigrants living here illegally that they're serious about enforcing the law, they'll pack up and leave. And they'll tell their friends and relatives waiting to break in on the other side of the border that it just ain't worth it.

It costs a lot of money to hire coyotes and smugglers to get here. They'll see in due order that they'll be wasting their money and will stay home -- or get in line with law-abiding immigrants who actually want to come to America and be American citizens.
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I think it's great that a few states are finally enforcing the laws on illegals and running them back to their own country! It's a load off of the American tax payer and we will save billions yearly that should be going to our own poor and elderly. I live in Oklahoma and the drop in Mexicans here is drastic since Govener Henry put house bill 1804 into effect a few months ago and I love the fact that I don't have to see or hear them speaking mexican anymore! America has been a free ride for way to long for these illegal aliens from Mexico and I hope that every state in America follows suit and drives them all back where they come from. I feel bad for them but they aren't our problem anymore! I recently went to Mexico (legally) for vacation to Peurto Vallarta(every one working was mexican and spoke english!) and it is an absolutely beautiful place, they have lots of ocean shoreline to build on and condos are going up by the dozens and there were people there from all over the world(wealthy people) so why don't they put some effort into building up their county and bettering theirselves that way? Hopefully we will be rid of all of them soon.....................

February 25, 2008

NO AMNESTY IN ARIZONA

Arizona is seeing signs of a flight by illegal immigrants out of the state and back across the border. Local reformers credit the state's recent crackdown on illegal immigration. Indeed, sanctions against employers are playing a key role, says Investor's Business Daily (IBD).

Consider:

The new state law punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants by suspending their business license for 10 days on the first violation and revoking it for a second offense.
At the same time, the county sheriff in Phoenix has been helping enforce federal immigration laws by rounding up people living there illegally.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has given arrest authority to many deputies; so in the course of a traffic stop, illegal aliens without driver's licenses for the first time now stand a real chance of being deported.

In response to the crackdown, illegals are flooding the Mexican consulate in Phoenix:

The consulate is reporting an "unusual" 400 percent increase in parents applying for Mexican birth certificates for their anchor babies and other documents they need to return to Mexico.
They're also requesting a paper known as a "menaje de casa," which allows illegals living in the United States to cross into Mexico without paying a tax on their furniture and other household goods.
Overall, some 30,000 illegal immigrants plan to leave Arizona as the state's tough new immigration laws kick in, according to a survey conducted earlier this month by Chicanos Por La Causa.
Arizona is a model for other states being overrun by illegals, says IBD. If they just send a clear message to immigrants living here illegally that they're serious about enforcing the law, they'll pack up and leave.

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