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Date Posted: 06:58:54 12/23/07 Sun
Author: rewhblcain (oh ya)
Subject: Re: New Law Driving Out Illegals
In reply to: JMR 's message, "New Law Driving Out Illegals" on 19:15:26 12/22/07 Sat

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>Experts: New Law Driving Out Illegals
>Saturday, December 22, 2007
>
>By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press Writer
>ADVERTISEMENT
>PHOENIX —
>
>Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a
>flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking
>down on their employers, are returning to their home
>countries or trying their luck in other states.
>
>For months, immigrants have taken a wait-and-see
>attitude toward the state's new employer-sanctions
>law, which takes effect Jan. 1. The voter-approved
>legislation is an attempt to lessen the economic
>incentive for illegal immigrants in Arizona, the
>busiest crossing point along the U.S.-Mexico border.
>
>And by all appearances, it's starting to work.
>
>"People are calling me telling me about their friend,
>their cousin, their neighbors _ they're moving back to
>Mexico," said Magdalena Schwartz, an immigrant-rights
>activist and pastor at a Mesa church. "They don't want
>to live in fear, in terror."
>
>Martin Herrera, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant and
>masonry worker who lives in Camp Verde, 70 miles north
>of Phoenix, said he is planning to return to Mexico as
>soon as he ties up loose ends after living here for
>four years.
>
>"I don't want to live here because of the new law and
>the oppressive environment," he said. "I'll be better
>in my country."
>
>He called the employer-sanctions law "absurd."
>
>"Everybody here, legally or illegally, we are part of
>a motor that makes this country run," Herrera said.
>"Once we leave, the motor is going to start to slow
>down."
>
>There's no way to know how many illegal immigrants are
>leaving Arizona, especially now with many returning
>home for normal holidays visits. But economists,
>immigration lawyers and people who work in the
>immigrant community agree it's happening.
>
>State Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa, the author of the
>employer sanctions law, said his intent was to drive
>illegal immigrants out of Arizona.
>
>"I'm hoping they will self-deport," Pearce said. "They
>broke the law. They're criminals."
>
>Under the employer sanctions law, businesses found to
>have knowingly hired illegal workers will be subject
>to sanctions from probation to a 10-day suspension of
>their business licenses. A second violation would
>bring permanent revocation of the license.
>
>Nancy-Jo Merritt, an immigration lawyer who primarily
>represents employers, said her clients already have
>started to fire workers who can't prove they are in
>the country legally.
>
>"Workers are being fired, of course," she said.
>"Nobody wants to find out later on that they've got
>somebody working for them who's not here legally."
>
>When immigrants don't have jobs, they don't stick
>around, said Dawn McLaren, a research economist at
>Arizona State University who specializes in illegal
>immigration.
>
>She said the flagging economy, particularly in the
>construction industry, also is contributing to an
>immigrant exodus.
>
>"As the jobs dwindle and the environment becomes more
>unpleasant in more ways than one, you then decide what
>to do, and perhaps leaving looks like a good idea,"
>she said. "And certainly that creates a problem,
>because as people leave, they take the jobs they
>created with them."
>
>Pearce disagreed that the Arizona economy will suffer
>after illegal immigrants leave, saying there will be
>less crime, lower taxes, less congestion, smaller
>classroom sizes and shorter lines in emergency rooms.
>
>"We have a free market. It'll adjust," he said.
>"Americans will be much better off."
>
>He said he's not surprised illegal immigrants are
>leaving the state and predicts that more will go once
>the employer-sanctions law takes effect next month.
>
>"It's attrition by enforcement," he said. "As you make
>this an unfriendly state for lawbreakers, I'm hoping
>they will pick up and leave."
>
>Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights
>reserved. This material may not be published,
>broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Lets go move it move it.......out,out,out, make way out out.

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