Saturday, January 19, 2008

Shoe, meet other foot.

Mexico is not happy:

A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say Arizona's new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state.
At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora - Arizona's southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money.
The law, which took effect Jan.1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don't have valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include suspension or loss of a business license.
Its intent is to eliminate or curtail the top draw for immigrants to this country - jobs.
Cry me a river, freeloader.

"How can they pass a law like this?" asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales.
"There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona," she said in Spanish.
"Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems" it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said.
"We are one family, socially and economically," she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.
Still don't think they're trying to colonize us for their "Aztlan" crap?

Meanwhile, another Border Patrol agent was killed, this time pursing what may have been Mexican smugglers in Imperial County, California on Interstate 8 near Yuma. I've been on the 8 several times. It is so close to the Mexican border you can literally smell Mexico. Trust me, it ain't pretty.

I'll save my sympathies for the Border Patrol agent (whose name has not yet been released) and his family.