Amid fuss over illegal immigrants, they're already going home

[babsbunny]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/01/93137/recession-enforcement-driving.html

[blogslut]

1. Recommended

Thanks for the link.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Impossible. I still see people with brown skin.

[stopbush]

7. That sucks. The Muslims were great scapegoats for America's ills for the past 10 years.

I expected the Mexicans to serve as scapegoats to at least the day after the 2012 elections.

Maybe we can give them special papers that allow them to stay here legally, but while still being allowed to call them "illegals" for political purposes. That way, the Rs can have their cake and eat it too.

[WeDidIt]

3. The number of illegal immigrants alwys decreases during bad economic times

It only stands to reason, too.

[MajorChode]

9. While that is true, I suspect there are a number of other reasons

A few years ago, even those in the country illegally could easily travel back and forth from Mexico. Not so any more. Also employers are under more pressure not to hire and exploit those in the country illegally. I do think the biggest reason is the economy, but when that changes I'm not sure we will see the same numbers of illegal immigration as in the past.

[Xipe Totec]

4. My heart is breaking

Do not surrender even when defeated,
and do not be a slave even in bondage,
trembling with fear advance bravely,
and attack with fury, though badly wounded.

Be as stubborn as a rusting nail,
that refuses to yield though old and ruined,
and do not envy the peacock's plumage,
that drops in fear at the first noise.

Be as a god that never cries,
or as a devil that never prays,
or as the oak whose mighty canopy,
needs of water but does not beg it.

Even when it rolls to the dust,
let your head scowl and bite,
and scream for vengeance.

- Pedro Palacios Almafuerte
Argentinian poet 1854-1917

Believe it or not, this is my mother's favorite poem.
She is my guiding light.
God bless her and keep her.

[Name removed]

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[havocmom]

6. The #*#$(@ law is not really about illegal immigrants. It's about intimidating brown people

and those who want to make sure they get their right to vote.

[The Northerner]

8. K&R

It's likely that this would've occurred during a bad economy.

[obxhead]

10. k

[mwrguy]

11. Can we get them back

by trading some rednecks?

[HillWilliam]

12. The horrible thing nobody wants to say

is that the walls built to keep strangers out are the same ones that will keep prisoners in.