Illegal immigrants are leaving Arizona because of the state’s new immigration law
Arizona’s controversial immigration law does not go into effect for another seven weeks but it is already reaping benefits as illegal immigrants are already leaving the state in droves. There are no exact numbers yet as to how may illegal immigrants have left the state, but the effect of the new law is already being felt.
They’re leaving to another state where they feel more welcome
That statement alone shows us that if immigration law is followed– or even if it is just perceived that it will be followed– the problem of illegal immigration can be solved with the federal law that is already on the books. We do not need comprehensive immigration reform, we just need the federal government to get serious about enforcing the laws that we already have.
If one state enacts a law that cracks down on illegal immigration, and because of this, illegals are traveling to states “where the feel more welcome'” we can only assume that if the federal government showed the same zeal as Arizona that illegal immigrants would move to countries where they felt more welcome– possibly to their homeland. Immigration law can work, the law must be followed.
One illegal immigrant had this to say:
If I were alone, I’d try to stay. But I have a family, and I have to find a place where we can live with more freedom,” said Cruz, who hopes to move July 4 to blend in with holiday weekend traffic. “This is getting too hard
I am sorry, but I can not feel sorry for Juan Carlos Cruz feeling as if he has to move because he does not have enough freedom in Arizona. If he had taken the necessary steps, and had moved to this country legally he wouldn’t have to try to slide unseen into another state over a holiday while hoping that he doesn’t get caught.
A spokesman for Jan Brewer had the following to say:
If that means that fewer people are breaking the law, that is absolutely an accomplishment
That is what this is all about; getting people to follow the law and giving law enforcement the power to make sure the law is being followed.
One downside to the law is that there are also legal immigrants who are leaving the state because they do not understand the Arizona law and feel threatened. This is not because of the law itself, but because of the way the federal government and the media have mischaracterized the law.
The Arizona law mimics the federal law, yet nobody in the Obama regime or in the media wants to admit this truth. They do not want to admit this because they want to push for comprehensive immigration reform and they believe that by mischaracterizing the Arizona law they can gain support for giving illegal immigrants amnesty.
The Obama regime is purposely trying to scare legal immigrants and it appears to be working. If these legal immigrants knew that there is virtually no difference between the Arizona law and the federal law– other than the fact that the Arizona law might actually be enforced– they would be shocked.
The Arizona law is working, but so is the effort of the Obama regime to propagandize the Arizona law and frighten the people who have come to this country legally. Personally, I find it deplorable that legal immigrants are being used in this manner.
America's Watchtower 
They’re leaving to another state where they feel more welcome
Hopefully it’s California, we’re on the verge of open warfare here in Texas… Brown, non-English speakers are starting to look like TARGETS… And I don’t mean the store… 😛
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Ha ha! The same thing happened here in Oklahoma! Amazing what happens when you ENFORCE the law! 🙂
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It really is as simple as that.
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I think you are spot on, Steve. This is something that I have noticed before. President Obama specifically called out the Republican leadership and others who were opposed to the health care plan, saying they were misleading the people and were giving out false information. He accused them of fear mongering, but he is guilty of the same tactic. He has made the Arizona law into something it is not.
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YOu have that right Larry. Obama uses the same tactics that he wants others to stop using. It is kind of like when he says it is time to stop finger pointing and then turns around and blames the Bush administration for something.
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Well, this is quite encouraging! I’m glad that Arizona’s law is working(but quite angry about the propaganda being spread about it). I hope we can start getting the mexicans out of Idaho now. 😉 By the way, that’s a joke! One of my best friends is of mexican ancestry. Just wanna be clear on that; I’m not against immigrants in any way (my great grandparents on my fathers side immigrated to America weeks before my grandmother was born)! I love that America is the great melting pot of the world. Let’s just be certain that people go about it the right way!
Isaiah
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“If he had taken the necessary steps, and had moved to this country legally . . .” You’re absolutely right, Steve, but how many of us know what’s involved in immigrating to this country (or is it emigrating?) from south of the border?
These folks are coming from a nation that’s hopelessly corrupt, yet they have virtually zero power to change their government. Add to that the fact that their employment situation stinks – generally, what work they can find pays barely subsistence wages, if that.
If you – and by that I mean you, Steve, and all the other adults here with families to support – found yourself in that position, you’d try to change as quickly as you can, wouldn’t you?
If it were me, and I saw the great nation of the UAS to the north, I’d want to move up there. Of course, being a law-abiding citizen, I’d go to the US embassy to find out how to do it legally.
That’s when I’d find out I’d have to wait years and years even to be considered.
I’m not saying we should be whisking these folks into our country instantaneously when they apply, but from their perspective – the perspective of any reasonable adult in that situation – the wait is intolerable.
That’s what’s motivating most of the illegal aliens who break our laws to get into our country.
Most of us are the beneficiaries of an accident of birth the determined that we’d be born here, or to parents who are American. Most illegal aliens are victims of that same accident of birth.
We’re living in the land of milk and honey. Most of us are Christian. As I see it, our job isn’t just to fling open our doors and let the milk and honey be depleted, but we can’t slam shut the doors to the destitute either. And that’s the situation I think we’re in – working with an immigration system from another year and perhaps also with biases from another year as well.
Of course, perhaps the very best thing to do would be to annex Mexico, throw all their politicians in jail, and treat the states the way the confederate states were treated after the North won the war – as soon as they meet certain basic guidelines of decency and honesty, etc., they’d be admitted to our union as full-fledged States.
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Well yes, Hispanics are all lazy, shiftless, cunning and underhanded. We should make them all wear yellow stars on their sleeves. After all God gave this country to white Americans and we have been here for thousands and thousands of years.
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I didn’t say anything like that and you know it. I specifically said that one downside to this is the fact that LEGAL immigrants also feel the need to move, but you chose to ignore that part of my post. Feel free to mischaracterize what I wrote though, most people understand the difference between legal and illegal.
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