http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/illegal-immigrants-plan-b-4-27-2010
Illegal Immigrants in Arizona Work Out a Plan B
Updated: Tuesday, 27 Apr 2010, 7:30 PM MDT
Published : Tuesday, 27 Apr 2010, 7:30 PM MDT
PHOENIX - Tourists from Mexico are a big part of Arizona's economy. According to a study from Arizona's Office of Tourism, between 2007 and 2008, 24 million Mexican citizens visited Arizona.
Those visits created 7,000 jobs and brought in $7 million a day. Shopping was the most popular activity.
For the past few days, the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix has been busy. Hundreds of families are preparing to either move back to Mexico, or put an emergency plan in place in case a family member gets deported.
A sea of people has been to the office to get documents to return to Mexico as legal Mexican citizens.
One woman who is in Arizona illegally says she will move back to Vera Cruz, Mexico this summer. Her children, who were born in Arizona, are legal U.S. citizens. They won't be able to attend school in Mexico unless they are Mexican citizens, so she is applying for dual citizenship for her kids.
Mexico Deputy Consul General Alfonso Navarro says SB 1070 has put many Mexico-born parents in a dilemma. They are here illegally, but children born here are legal U.S. citizens who would need papers to travel to Mexico. Many are preparing to leave Arizona just in case.
"For any catastrophic event, should mom and dad get arrested and deported, all the family will be able to be reunited on Mexican soil," says Navarro.
Navarro says the fear of the unknown is driving many immigrants away that view Arizona as hostile territory.
Here is what I see happening:
They have 90 days to get affairs in order before the law takes affect.
So maybe when the 90 days is up, there is a new business opportunity in smuggling the illegals BACK to Mexico
Mexico doesn't WANT them back - there will no longer be the influx of money.
Mexico doesn't have jobs for them, and will become the next Welfare country.
Mexico will try to make it difficult for them to even go back, so that will cause us to have to create a shelter for them while this is all worked out. We will have to feed and house them, which will then in the media will be referred to as a concentration camp.
Everyone in the US that is challenging this law will now be set on crusades to raise money to give to all these "poor immigrants that only came to this country to support their families"
There will be commercials on TV with a sad little mexican girl with big pretty eyes with Sarah Mclaughlin singing in the background (yeah, admit it, the first few times you saw that commercial for the SPCA you teared up a bit, I don't care who you are).
We ain't out the woods by a LONG SHOT on what it is going to take to enforce this law.
