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| Immigration sweep sends wave of fear though San Diego neighborhood |
| 2006-06-18 |
| How many are going to decide it isn't worth it, and just decamp for home? Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half. The sidewalks are quieter. A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes since immigration agents began walking the streets searching for people who are in the United States illegally. It's part of a stepped-up nationwide effort targeting an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives. Juana Osorio, an illegal immigrant from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, said her San Diego neighbors have largely stayed indoors since agents visited her apartment complex June 2. "People rarely leave their houses now to go shopping," Osorio, 37, said as she clutched a bottle of laundry detergent in a barren courtyard. "They walk in fear." Her husband, Juan Rivera, 29, has stopped taking their two children to the park on weekends. "We want to go out but we can't," said Rivera, a construction worker. In a blitz that began May 26 and ended Tuesday, federal agents arrested nearly 2,200 illegal immigrants, including about 400 in the San Diego area, more than any other city. It was the latest salvo in a crackdown on illegal immigration that has included arrests of nearly 1,200 workers at a supplier of wooden cargo pallets and the deployment of National Guard troops on the Mexican border. Meantime, Congress is considering a broad overhaul of immigration laws. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 GOT IT It took a while, but all the pieces are there. First Piece, throw ALL the Illegals out, or scare them back home. Second Piece, Talk about the Border fence (See point one) to keep them there. Third piece. this new International Highway in the planning. Conclusion, The United States plans to Bankrupt Mexico, Then offer "Economic Assistance" and quietly make Mexico a part of the United States. Otherwise this planned Mega-Highway is a fools dream, BUT NOT IF IT'S ALL "AMERICA" in the end result. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-06-18 22:06 |
| #5 Dittos! big time! |
| Posted by: RD 2006-06-18 22:00 |
| #4 "We're all scared to go to school," If you were not a criminal you would have nothing to fear, but you are a criminal: you have entered without a visa, you are a foreign national here without permission, you have violated our sovereignty. You are a leech on our school systems and our hospital systems. Get out. Go home. Change your own country into what you want it to be; you have no right to change ours. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-06-18 20:18 |
| #3 ME TOO 2B since i am a white constuction worker i GA i know how the gov is giving latinos a cheaper rate on workmans comp ins by about 14% but i guess white men like me won't do that kind of work? fuck you mutherfuckers i don't feel sorry for your asses at all |
| Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-06-18 20:17 |
| #2 You persued Socialist dreams, you broke the law, you protested, you used the church, you brought over drugs, you brought over gangs, you bankrupted healthcare, your filled up the prisons, You filled the schools, you tried to change the language, you jumped in line, you changed the political system here, you claimed land you had no right to, you abused the legal system, and you thumbed your nose at the law. Worse, You let your relitives and friends sit in that ruionious condition in Mexico which you can fix. You are loved, but you can do far better and this and all of us know this. |
| Posted by: newc 2006-06-18 19:40 |
| #1 ahhh, ain't that too bad. Get it used to it. My sympathies to the hard workers who came here thanks to winks from our useless lawmakers. I hope it works out for you. But I've lost my sympathy for the game - along with about 200 million other American citizens. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-18 18:34 |