Can NM expect a population boom due to Arizona's new immigration law (transplants, insurance)
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As I read your response, ALL the paragraphs are in italics. Maybe it's just my PC..
A huge Spanish-speaking or Spanish heritage population dominating the demographics
of Arizona, New Mexico, California Nevada and Texas, (maybe not Utah)..
Surely you can work that out for yourself..
I was specifically talking about the last paragraph.
Im sure New Mexico will see a boom in population, especially ABQ, CA is really expensive to live in and NM is arms wide open, Im sure TX will see a boost too but its kinda hard to tell there, they just continue to boom with people from everywhere.
Those are the folks who will be paying for your social security and medicare. Just make sure you collect their taxes.
That's a point that is often badly and deliberately distorted in the controversy about
illegal immigration; basically a significant percentage (I'm tempted to say "majority"
but the data is too shaky), have formal jobs at retailers, food outlets, etc., and
every one of those people is paying taxes and social security.
I do not approve of illegal immigration, but some of the "truisms" that have been
flung about are not supported by what few hard facts are available.
Well, with the illegal-friendly Richardson, I'm sure that there'll be a lot more illegals coming into Columbus than Nogales pending the Arizona law, and reciprocal New Mexican scoff.
As I read your response, ALL the paragraphs are in italics. Maybe it's just my PC..
A huge Spanish-speaking or Spanish heritage population dominating the demographics
of Arizona, New Mexico, California Nevada and Texas, (maybe not Utah)..
I'm not worried about NM, as it has been a pipeline of northward migration for nearly a century. It's CO and eastward that is of concern. I'm afraid that prof in CA maybe right - regaining the lost territories would solve many of Mexico's problems, not ours. If I remember history - Mexico extended up the Kali coastline to just below San Francisco and across NV, UT & CO and down into TX. www.aztlan.net/default14.htm (broken link)
Used to be in most midwestern cities (250k +) when a cop stopped you they almost always asked for your id. My grandfather showed the cop his green card. That's not profiling, that's just following the law.
When the Feds don't enforce the immigration laws of the Union then it is left up to the states to create and enforce their own.
Last edited by plainsman48; 04-25-2010 at 07:42 AM..
Used to be in most midwestern cities (250k +) when a cop stopped you they almost always asked for your id. My grandfather showed the cop his green card. That's not profiling, that's just following the law.
Asking for a driver's license or I.D. so they can determine whether you should be driving a car isn't the same thing as challenging you to produce citizenship. It should be none of the cops' business what my citizenship status is. It smacks of authoritarianism. If one asked me I'd tell him where he could go and what he could do to himself when he gets there.
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