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That's the general consensus among liberal maroons. But AZ is proving them wrong.
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Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law
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Arizona’s hard-hitting immigration law is driving Hispanics out of the state weeks before the controversial law goes into effect.
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Although concrete figures are not available, anecdotal evidence suggests Hispanics, both legal residents and illegal immigrants, are starting to flee.
Schools in Hispanic neighborhoods are reporting abnormal enrollment drops, and businesses that serve Hispanics also report that business is down, according to a USA Today report published Wednesday.
The report suggests that the immigration law is compounding demographic trends that have already significantly curtailed illegal immigration during the past two years. The bad economy has been the primary deterrent to many Hispanic immigrants seeking to enter Arizona, says Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington.
“If you have a bad economy and a hostile environment, then that’s likely to cause people to think twice about coming, and possibly even to leave,” Mr. Passel says.
Arizona’s new immigration law requires that police conducting routine traffic stops or other checks ask people about their immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that they're in the country illegally.
The law also makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally or to disrupt traffic when hiring day laborers, regardless of a worker's immigration status. It would also become a crime for illegal immigrants to solicit work.
Critics contend the law could lead to racial profiling of Hispanics. It could also force an exodus of scared immigrants – legal and illegal. Nearly 100,000 illegal immigrants left Arizona after it passed a 2007 law that penalized businesses that hired them, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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OK, LEGAL immigrants are leaving too. But I have a question. How many LEGALS are leaving because their ILLEGAL family members are bolting? Two dimes vs a donut not one pollster will think to ask that.
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PS,
my posting will be light for the next few weeks. We're moving and I can't do that AND this. Be good, salute a Flag on the 4th, Poots stay outta trouble in NYC, Spider, Billy O', keep Poots outta trouble, Missy, carry a BAT while he's up there, Jimbo, wear sunscreen while you're wahini watching, CdashBug, eat some Tx brisket BBQ fer me, and everybody else...generally be good. Remember,
Those who go forth on the 4th,
with a fifth,
May not got go forth,
ON the fifth!
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Yeah there all here in "Sanctuary State" New Mexico
CowPoo,
Where da fug ch'all been? Wutebber.
Look Der PootinShtein gotts to way to kik dos off eben b4 we build a fence and sell sell hunting Licenses fer illegals.
Sipmmly pass the "PootLaw" which is:
Any illegal caught in the US must do 5 years in prison doing 'recompensory labor' to repay the US for the expense of dealing with their illegal asses. Then we deport them. Not to Nogalas, but 1,000 miles south from there. Wit out a dime. Let the muthafukkin Mexrikan govmt pay their shit to feed and shelter their worthless illegal asses.
EH HENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another totally logical and sensible (albeit a bit soft) suggestion from Brother Poots.
Or, we could simply give the illegals the entire state of Mexifornia. Hey, they already have most of it so it's not like we'd be losing anything. But, they have to take all of the goofy commies who live there or the deal is off. (present company excluded) Besides, could the illegals possibly do a worse job running the place than the leftist losers who have driven it into the crapper?
My July weekends social calendar are filling quickly. Best that bro poots get his ax together(that be brooklneeze for shit) and give a heads up on his tinnerary asap or I'lljust have to leave him a hipflask of night train and have some homeless dude keep company with him til I get back
Steve,
Did I miss it? Where ya movin' to?
I think Steve said he's moving to Manhattan. He wants to become one of the "enlightened ones". ;)
I feel bad for the legals who are leaving, assuming that they are leaving because they no longer feel comfortable in Arizona because of the law. They may be anticipating constantly having to prove that they are a legal resident and choose to leave instead of dealing with the hassle and foo-faroo. I don’t really blame them for being adverse to that – my own distrust of all things government would necessarily dictate my being really, really annoyed with constantly having to justify myself to government officials for this or that…
BUT…
At the same time, they have no one to blame but their illegal brethren for their predicament. If they blame the State of Arizona, they are blaming the wrong guy. It sucks that they went through the immigration channels and did the right thing and are now being made uncomfortable in their home State, but instead of blaming the state, how about blaming all of their countrymen who couldn’t be bothered to do what they did – the right thing – and come in legally? That is the one thing that baffles me in the whole “immigration debate” thing. You would think that LEGAL immigrants who did the right thing and came in with permission would be the loudest voices against illegal immigration – after all, it isn’t fair that they did the work and came in legally while their countrymen sneak in in the dark. However, you’ll find that the exact opposite is true, and it is very perplexing.
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