"How you gonna keep em down on the farm, after they've seen the USA?
The Real Reason They Don't Want Them Back
DAILY PUNDIT
By Bill Quick on Immigration
Reader Iceman sends me a link to this:
ABC News: Border Crackdown Working, Numbers Show
"Mexican shelters, usually the last stop for northbound migrants, are filling with southbound deportees. Fewer migrants are crossing in the wind-swept deserts along an increasingly fortified border. Far to the north, fields are empty at harvest time as workplace raids become more common.
Mexicans are increasingly giving up on the American dream and staying home, and the federal crackdown on undocumented workers announced Friday should discourage even potential migrants from taking the risks as the United States purges itself of its illegal population."
Great news, if I thought the Bush administration was serious about keeping the pressure on.
"U.S. border agents detained 55,545 illegal migrants jumping over border walls, walking through the desert and swimming across the Rio Grande River between October and June. That's down 38 percent for the entire border compared to the same period a year before."
It is about also from 14 to 4 percent of the estimated influx of illegals from Mexico, depending on whose numbers you believe.
"U.S. and Mexican officials say increased border security, including 6,000 National Guard troops, remote surveillance technology and drone planes, have thwarted smugglers who had succeeded for years at beating the system."
What system?
"Migrants also say they feel Americans are increasingly hostile toward immigrants.
"It's the discrimination," said 28-year-old George Guevara, who was deported to Tijuana last month after living in the U.S. for 18 years. "It's making people step back. It's just too much of a risk. It's better to be out here."
But I thought our President assured us we could do nothing about securing our southern borders, or removing illegal aliens currently in the country, without a "comprehensive" amnesty plan.
"Guevara, who speaks perfect English and has only distant memories of Mexico, was living at a Tijuana migrant shelter filled with deportees, many of whom are Mexican-born but find themselves in a country that is foreign to them.
"I barely remember living here," Guevara said. "But I see this as an opportunity. I'm going to go back to Guadalajara to see my family and forget what happened."
Self-deportees and deportees like Guevara (ironic, that name…) are one of the Mexican government's biggest fears. The last thing that government wants is an influx of several hundred thousand or a few million fully Americanized illegals who are used to living in a capitalist democracy, and who may decide that it is time to change the nature of the oligarchic kleptocracy currently ruling their new (old) nation. |
