Ever talk to a knucklehead about securing the border? Let me give you a taste of what you can expect:
“Oh, you can’t deport at 12-20 million. What are you going to do with all of the illegals? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm?”
And then you would be accosted with the same attitude when you said that if the opportunities for illegal immigrants were not there, they would just leave. And Arizona is proving that idea right:
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.
How many people are trying to get back into Mexico? “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.” Seems to me that if you enforce the laws, illegals will go back home.
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.
