Wednesday, April 28, 2010

That'll teach 'em

So the headline from the AP says this:

Illegal immigrants plan to leave over Ariz. law

You don't say.

Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy.

"Nobody wants to pick us up," Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.

Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.

Somehow, I don't see Arizonans recoiling in fright over this prospect. But don't worry about Mr. Loyola Diaz and his colleagues. They have other places to go.

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