U.S. Economy Sucks, So Illegal Immigrants Are Goin’ Home!

• "A.J."
  July 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

  So, the government had a reason for the dwindling economy. They’re so cunning.

• dcgirl9
  July 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

  anti immigrant comments….three, two, one…

• Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
  July 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  This should make a lot of Americans happy.

• shecky
  July 5th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

  I’ve said it before… high rates of illegal immigration is a very good indicator of well being, particularly evident when the largest numbers were accompanied by very low unemployment rates. Supply and demand explains so much more than La Raza conspiracy theories.

• HW
  July 5th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  That would really suck for the Whites - they would have to put their own kind to do the dishes, mow the lawn and clean up!

  I am sure the Blacks are really frightened too - and they themselves are using Mexican people to do their clean up!!!!

  What a concept!!!!

  But on the other hand, may be the Americans will realize - that they actually have to work and support their own communities by doing their own upkeep and not use minority labor!

  Wow what a concept!

• LisaL
  July 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

  Lol HW… I was actually thinking the same thing.
  “OMG Who are ppl going to get to build those buildings now? Landscape their lawns? Do all of the other “shit” jobs no one else wants?”

  Anyways… you know it’s bad when the immigrants would rather take their chances back at home. Very sad.

• AnUnSi
  July 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

  Good riddance! Americans don’t need the lawbreakers in their midst. Every one of them broke our very just immigration laws to get in, and MANY of them have continued to break the law (with identity theft, rape, murder, you name it).

  Whether certain kinds of work will get done or not is IRRELEVANT. The ONLY relevant thing is that the leeches have no RIGHT to be here! They must apply to come in through normal channels.

  And lest anyone wrongly accuse me of being am “prejudiced,” I am happy to say that I speak Spanish and I LOVE legal immigrants!

  Case closed!

• Jaime
  July 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  Anti-immigrant people that are 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd generation immigrants.. That’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. Shameless cowards.

• Ashley
  July 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

  It’s not immigrants most of us are against–it’s ILLEGAL immigrants. I’m all for legal immigration.

• Peeves
  July 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

  Yeah case closed indeed, douchebag.

• Geekazoid
  July 5th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  Hey whatever happened to the cry babies that whine about leaving politics out of Neatorama? Isn’t this a political post? How about self defense with a gun? Or a pregnant man?

  I think I see a trend here, seems some only have an issue with political topics of a certain kind. Pure hypocrisy!

  Anyhoo, back to the regular programming!

• JC
  July 5th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

  HW, that´s extreme. Just a small part is returning to Mexico.

• Dave
  July 5th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  Is it the economy or the Joe Horn case? ;o)

• Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
  July 5th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  AnUnSi, why do you think there are so many illegal immigrants? If it was easy to get in legally, don’t you think they would? (Oops… I forgot. You think they’re all criminals anyway: rapists, murderers, etc.) Most people don’t want to break the law. But they have little choice. When your family’s going hungry, do you really want to wait years and go through all the legal channels? Even after all that, you’d probably still be rejected.

  I’m not saying illegal immigration is right. All I’m saying is that it’s understandable in a country that’s so concerned about keeping all the doors locked up tight. Kind of hypocritical, considering the U.S.A’s history.

  “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”

  Yeah, right.

• dj
  July 5th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

  I wish they would take George Bush with them.

• LS
  July 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

  Immigrant worker does NOT equal illegal immigrant. The news article confounds the two also, unfortunately. Legal vs. illegal is kind of an important distinction.

• J of The Sandhills
  July 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

  all the talk of “failed states” and we got one south of the border. as long as the politicos in washington dont see that we are always going to have this problem with illegals

• ted
  July 5th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  Wow, Anunsi, you really went round the bend with that one. Damn illegal immigrant rapists.

• Dave
  July 5th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

  After reading the linked article and from what I’ve read elsewhere, I question how much of an exodus there is, and how much it has to do with the economy. The US economy isn’t as bad as has been reported. Sure, there are pockets where things are tough, but in general the economy is chugging along just fine. The media will start reporting that once there isn’t a Republican in the White House.

  @ Neatoramawontsendmeapassword: The “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” line still applies; always has and hopefully always will, but historically people had some respect for the laws of the country they were coming to and the culture they were entering. My ancestors — and the ancestors of the vast majority of US citizens — did, and made their entry into this country the proper way, assimilated into the population, learned the language if they didn’t know it already, and became Americans (yes, that term in this context ought to piss a few people off).

  The vast majority of the illegals that are here today couldn’t give a rip about the rule of law, have no desire to stay here and have no intention to go out of their way to learn the language or anything else. Many of them work, but many also leech off the entitlement system when they’re not entitled to a dime. I understand that things may be desperate where they come from, but that doesn’t make their well being my responsibility, or yours, unless you willingly accept it. And if you do accept it, that doesn’t make it the responsibility of the local, state or federal government.

• HW
  July 6th, 2008 at 12:18 am

  JC,

  I apologize - you’re right, it was a bit extreme

  to say Mexico as the only country -

  because not all of them come from Mexico, they also come from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, and even Columbia…….

• Lasse
  July 6th, 2008 at 3:11 am

  “I’m all for legal immigration.”

  I am sure the indians would have had a commment to that.

• Gaby
  July 6th, 2008 at 3:25 am

  I don’t know, in my personal experience people will come back to their original countries eventually, with savings and ready for some kick ass retirement years. Maybe this is something cyclic? A generation of immigrants just reached the point when they want to go back, and it was just a coincidence that the US economy isn’t doing as good.

  @ HW: *Colombia. It’s a pet peeve of mine, sorry.

• Max Power
  July 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am

  MUGABE!! MUGABE!! MUGABE!!

• Max Power
  July 6th, 2008 at 9:15 am

  oh

• Polx
  July 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am

  Why do you think there are so many illegal immigrants in the USA?

  Because it has been kept that way since time immemorial.

  If you have a large unskilled workforce wjho can come and do the jopb for a fraction of the cost then this is seen as a ghreat thing in business circles.

  It is even better when they are illegal, so you can force down the low wages and remove any rights, also you get to operate out side of health and safety parameters, thus saving even more.

  And when thisngs go sour, tyhrow the work force away.

  Anyone beginning to see that their own working situation in the US is drifting towards that?

  See when you have illegals, then it presures legal workers too.

  But instead of speaking out against the owners and investors in these schemes racist mouth breathers ,who I have read on here time and again, rail against the illegals.

  Talk about missing the bloody point.

  See dummy, the GMC parts factory that closes down and moves to mexico so they can operate a dangerous plant in a 3rd world counrty, that’s the idea, go and bust a Mexicans about the head.

  here’s an inspired idea, point your anger at those doing the screwing, not the omnes who are getting screwed even worse than you.

  Do sopmething practical. Stop buying GMC cars, stop buying NIkes made by child labour in the 3rd world.

  Stop supporting companies who have screwed your own countrymen out of their jobs and in many cases pensions.

  Blaming a small minoritiy for the woes of your nation has a poor track record,

• Max Power
  July 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

  Besides I really like the way they say “Mexico” or “Americano”

• Thomas
  July 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

  Damn, no more slave labor? Whoever will pick our fruit?

  I’m glad to see them going, but not because they might be thieves or rapists — that’s just good ole fashioned bigotry. I’m glad to see American employers forced by default to pay a legal wage to all of their employees. Not that we’re anywhere close now, but if the trend continues, we may actually see the days when no one refers to the, “jobs that Americans don’t want to do.” There’s no such thing. There are only jobs that Americans won’t do until you pay them fairly.

• Greengirl
  July 6th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

  Dave,
  Your economy is in the toilet. I know it is and not just via media reports because of how much my dollar (I am Canadian) is now worth vs. the American dollar. I went for a trip to a town on the U.S. side that was near border that was usually doing well. There are large waterfront properties and colonial houses. What shocked me was the amount of foreclosures and crumbling buildings everywhere. There was a mall that had been closed entirely and boarded up in all but one store. I heard two men talking about how one of them lost their job that they have had for the past 15 years. Even the President has admitted that the American economy is in severe trouble, and he is a Republican.

  The economy is in terrible shape and it has nothing to do with political alliances. When your new president takes the office, it will still be in severe trouble.

  I am sorry to say it because although I dislike your president, I wouldn’t wish a terrible economy on any nation.

• Amy H.
  July 6th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

  Nuevo pioneers are not evil criminals. The businesses and our society are profiting from their hard work. There should be immigration reform to give these workers legal status.

• economic earwax
  July 6th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

  legalize marijuana and tax it and we all breathe better!

• CheeseDuck
  July 6th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  Aw. No more slave labor for me.. Who will I have do demeaning things at really low prices? Oh yeah. Homeless people.

• Jimbo
  July 7th, 2008 at 11:53 am

  By By Hosea, don’t let the screen door hit you where the good Lord split you on your way out!

• Greengirl
  July 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  Jimbo, are you serious?

• the lord
  July 7th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  wow first i heard the drug dealers where sending their stuff to other places becouse of the falling dallar now this!

  man this country is so fu**

  Polx is right
  all of you are blaiming the victim and the ones who think that they have it made cuz their white or have a high income(stockholm syndrome) are going to get a big suprise when they get halled of to consentration camps(o that could never happen-Umm yeah it has ww2 anyone)

  I could go on but why bother………..sigh

• Gary
  July 16th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  OK, All of you Greenies, Meanies and Weenies just STFU for a bit and read. First, I am a husband of a “Legal Immigrant” which makes me the father of of a bi-ratial son. I am also descended on my Father’s side from the original founder of this country, Henry Hudson. Who, on his trek seeking a shortcut to the Dutch West Indies happened to get shipwrecked in the Hudson River, you know, that river that runs from Lake Ontario(Canada) to the New York Harbor? 60 years before Pilgrims, by the way. On my Mother’s side I am one generation away from being full blooded Norwegian. My Grandmother immigrated from Norway in 1907. So I am the epitome of both sides of this emotional war of what is right based upon what the United States of America really stand for. I am half immigrant, and I am half native American. I am 1/8th Sioux as my Grandfather, My Mother’s Father was 1/2 Sioux, and, My Father’s Grandmother was 100% Seneca Indian of the Iroquois Nation. This actually makes me 3/8ths Native American. As for this economy, I am also 50 and worked gas stations during the 70’s gas crunch during my high school years. I survived the Jimmy Carter years (yes, I vboted for him since he was also supposed to decriminalize 420).
  OK, my history and background (albeit mildly synposized) withstands the rhetoric of the many, please understand that I am very glad the illegals here in the US are returning to their origins. I for one would love to see them become legal taxpaying citizens, but since only 1 in 6 is the bread winner, I won’t cry when they leave. I will cherish when they do not cause hospital costs to rise as they do not pay for their healthcare. I will jump for joy when anchor babies become a thing of the past. I do not expect gas prices to diminish much if at all, I don’t think salaries will rise at a rate equal to inflation, and my (currently locked Jumbo Mortgage) becomes an albatross around my neck (I have already lost over $100K in home value here in California)
  Vaya con dios mijo, Please remember to shut off the CFL on the way out of the barn!

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