Migrants sell up, flee Arizona ahead of crackdown | Reuters
on July 25th, 2010 at 11:16 pm“Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving,” said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. “We have no alternative. They have us cornered.”
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.
The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico.
via Migrants sell up, flee Arizona ahead of crackdown | Reuters.
Tell me again how this is a bad thing? With state budgets already running on borrowed money, why should those who don’t pay any taxes be getting the same benefits as those who are? Hopefully this will take some of the strain off of Arizona, but it will definitely hurt neighboring states who allow illegals to continue to mooch off working Americans.