Mexico Complains Of Too Many Repatriated Mexicans

[CactusCarlos]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/mexico-complains-too-many-repatriated-mexicans

Mon, 04/07/2008 - 15:28 — Judicial Watch Blog
The U.S. border state leading the battle against illegal immigration with unprecedented tough laws has received complaints from Mexico’s government that too many Mexicans have been repatriated and the country is overwhelmed with demands for housing, jobs and schools.

Fed up with the devastating effect of illegal immigration, Arizona has enacted the nation’s toughest laws to curb the problem and evidently its working. State legislators have passed laws barring illegal immigrants from receiving government services, posting bail for serious crimes and winning punitive damages in lawsuits. This year a new law makes it illegal for businesses to hire undocumented workers and those that do can be shut down.

The state legislator who sponsored the work bill, Representative Russell Pearce, says the law’s undeniably positive effects include smaller class sizes, shorter emergency room waits and an overall huge savings to taxpayers. The Republican congressman drafted the bill because studies revealed that illegal immigration cost Arizona taxpayers over $2 billion annually, not including the toll of crime and destruction.

It turns out that enough illegal immigrants have either fled the U.S. or been deported that officials in the Mexican state of Sonora, which shares an extensive border with Arizona, have complained that too many of their fellow countrymen have returned. They miss the remittances sent from the U.S. as well as smaller class sizes in local schools.

Mexican government officials knew Arizona’s tough employment verification law would become their worst nightmare, which explains why they tried blocking it. Earlier this year a delegation of nine legislators from Sonora toured Tucson and held a news conference to say that their beloved state cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools resulting from illegal Mexican workers returning home.

One baffled Mexican legislator, Leticia Amparano Gamez, asked in Spanish “how can they pass a law like this?” She went on to explain that Mexico is not prepared for the “tremendous problems” it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs. Another member of the Mexican delegation, Representative Florencio Diaz Armenta, asked “what do we do with the repatriated?”

[Lord Undies]

I don't buy that the criminal Mexicans are returning to Mexico.  My guess is they are fleeing to California.

The Mexican officials are using the Arizona law to create a phony scenario in order to discourage other states (liberals) from passing similar laws.

[Chris_]

I don't buy that the criminal Mexicans are returning to Mexico.  My guess is they are fleeing to California.

The Mexican officials are using the Arizona law to create a phony scenario in order to discourage other states (liberals) from passing similar laws.

California is maxed out -- there is no more capacity and with rents running in the $1,500-$3,000 range even 10 to a unit is too expensive.  There also is a lot of competition for the "traditional illegal" jobs and the anti-illegal backlash (May, 2007 -- the gift that keeps on giving) is severe.  Many "worker lounge" construction projects have been killed while in planning and more and more cities are enforcing Federal rules.  Even Los Angeles is now checking all arrestees to see if they are illegal and deporting them after they complete their jail sentences.

Phil Collins said it best: It's no fun, being an illegal alien -- and about damn time.

[Uhhuh35]

I don't buy that the criminal Mexicans are returning to Mexico.  My guess is they are fleeing to California.
The Mexican officials are using the Arizona law to create a phony scenario in order to discourage other states (liberals) from passing similar laws.

It's good that you believe the Mexican government would lie, they are very corrupt. But they don't want to pay the social costs of those people either. Heck you remember when the Mexican Government printed up all those pamphlets to help it's citizens sneak in to the US?
http://cryptome.sabotage.org/mx/mx-migrants.htm#below

And I heard that some of them are fleeing to New Mexico! Appropriate isn't it?

[Lord Undies]

I don't buy that the criminal Mexicans are returning to Mexico.  My guess is they are fleeing to California.

The Mexican officials are using the Arizona law to create a phony scenario in order to discourage other states (liberals) from passing similar laws.

California is maxed out -- there is no more capacity and with rents running in the $1,500-$3,000 range even 10 to a unit is too expensive.  There also is a lot of competition for the "traditional illegal" jobs and the anti-illegal backlash (May, 2007 -- the gift that keeps on giving) is severe.  Many "worker lounge" construction projects have been killed while in planning and more and more cities are enforcing Federal rules.  Even Los Angeles is now checking all arrestees to see if they are illegal and deporting them after they complete their jail sentences.

Phil Collins said it best: It's no fun, being an illegal alien -- and about damn time.

After posting, the thought did cross my mind that California was probably too expensive and competitive. 

I still say the criminals are going somewhere besides Mexico. 

[DixieBelle]

Well my give-a-damn is busted.

[CactusCarlos]

Well my give-a-damn is busted.

Jo Dee, is that you?   

[Chris_]

I don't buy that the criminal Mexicans are returning to Mexico.  My guess is they are fleeing to California.

The Mexican officials are using the Arizona law to create a phony scenario in order to discourage other states (liberals) from passing similar laws.

California is maxed out -- there is no more capacity and with rents running in the $1,500-$3,000 range even 10 to a unit is too expensive.  There also is a lot of competition for the "traditional illegal" jobs and the anti-illegal backlash (May, 2007 -- the gift that keeps on giving) is severe.  Many "worker lounge" construction projects have been killed while in planning and more and more cities are enforcing Federal rules.  Even Los Angeles is now checking all arrestees to see if they are illegal and deporting them after they complete their jail sentences.

Phil Collins said it best: It's no fun, being an illegal alien -- and about damn time.

After posting, the thought did cross my mind that California was probably too expensive and competitive. 

I still say the criminals are going somewhere besides Mexico. 

Yeah, there's a few gazillion here in TN....d*mmit.

[Ptarmigan]

Well, Mexico is not a poor nation. There is a wide income gap between the haves and have nots. Mexico has a lot of resources and is the second largest economy in Latin America after Brazil and 13th largest in the world. Mexico is stuck in the 16th century and is an aristocratic society ruled by a few families for the past 500 years.

[Duke Nukum]

I always wonder why our leaders, when claiming to want to fix the problem, don't have anything for Mexico, like billing Mexico for healthcare and stuff.  Heck, bill them for the prison time.

[Duke Nukum]

Well, Mexico is not a poor nation. There is a wide income gap between the haves and have nots. Mexico has a lot of resources and is the second largest economy in Latin America after Brazil and 13th largest in the world. Mexico is stuck in the 16th century and is an aristocratic society ruled by a few families for the past 500 years.

I think I heard a couple of years ago more millionaires were being created in Mexico then in the U.S.

[Flame]

And why should we care??? 

Why is it our job to provide jobs, etc for other countries???????

[Servonaut]

[asdf2231]

So Mexico's problem is that it's full of Mexicans? 

[Randy]

So Mexico's problem is that it's full of Mexicans? 

Well, duh

[djones520]

I love that line of thinking...

"Stop sending us our citizens!"