Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants

[proud2BlibKansan]

RIVERSIDE, N.J., Sept. 25 — A little more than a year ago, the Township Committee in this faded factory town became the first municipality in New Jersey to enact legislation penalizing anyone who employed or rented to an illegal immigrant.

Angelina Guedes has owned a hair and nail salon in Riverside, N.J., for two years. It was nearly empty on a recent afternoon.

Within months, hundreds, if not thousands, of recent immigrants from Brazil and other Latin American countries had fled. The noise, crowding and traffic that had accompanied their arrival over the past decade abated.

The law had worked. Perhaps, some said, too well.

With the departure of so many people, the local economy suffered. Hair salons, restaurants and corner shops that catered to the immigrants saw business plummet; several closed. Once-boarded-up storefronts downtown were boarded up again.

more . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/nyregion/26riverside.html?em&ex=1191038400&en=ee968bbab1a96345&ei=5087http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/nyregion/26riverside.html?em&ex=1191038400&en=ee968bbab1a96345&ei=5087

[prole_for_peace]

1. i read this article this morning and (for once) i was speechless

they were shocked...SHOCKED that business fell off and the town is having difficulties. wow!!

i really like this guy “It changed the face of Riverside a little bit,” said Charles Hilton, the former mayor who pushed for the ordinance. (He was voted out of office last fall but said it was not because he had supported the law.)
“The business district is fairly vacant now, but it’s not the legitimate businesses that are gone,” he said. “It’s all the ones that were supporting the illegal immigrants, or, as I like to call them, the criminal aliens.”

now THAT is a jackass..

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. They alienate a good percentage of the population

and then they wonder why business is down.

:crazy:

[treestar]

2. So now they figure out that it can help the economy to have more people

How hilarious.

Let's deport all 13 million illegals. No American will lose their job due to that, will they? :sarcasm: In fact, that will open up 13 million jobs to Amurkans! :sarcasm: