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Good Damn Riddance
Posted by Raven on June 16th, 2008
Good news:
Hundreds of Brazilians have returned in recent months to Governador Valadares, an area in the southeast of the country.
Sociology professor Sueli Siqueira, who interviewed hundreds of the returnees, found that 43 percent left the United States because they weren’t satisfied with their earnings. About 28 percent had been deported. “The cost-benefit of this experience of migration stopped being positive,” Siqueira said, “and they began thinking about coming back.”
The departures are evidence that the Bush administration’s decision to tighten the screws on enforcement is paying off, say proponents of stricter immigration laws.
Several states passed their own laws, from tighter employment-verification requirements to authorizing local police to act as immigration agents.
Passage of similar laws in Georgia, coupled with a construction slowdown, prompted Salinas to join a relative in south Florida.
“That’s the whole point of enforcement, to change the climate, to make it as hard as possible for you as an illegal alien, so you can’t just melt away into the shadows,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington group favoring sharp curbs on immigration.
But the crackdown’s critics say it has spread fear among the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country without solving the underlying problem.
Goes to show these immigrants are not here in the US out of want of a new life, like their ancestors of the early 1900’s…nope…these people are parasites with no desire to become Americans. They wish to bleed us dry and go home when the blood stops flowing.
To them I say:
June 19th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
This demonstrates that controlling illegal immigration doesn’t need disruptive police action. Rather, controlling the border and enforcing employer sanctions can help cut down on the supply of illegal labor. The relative weakening of the dollar compared to other Central/South American currencies undercuts those who came to the U.S. in order to take their earning them back to their homecountry.
Not only does this reduce the number of illegals, this also benefits those who truly want to live in this country and become citizens, as they will face less competition from the “parasites”.
Even McCain is doing some listening, and hopefully he will be able to see that there are non-amnesty approaches that can work.