Today's Los Angeles Times, for example, features a story about how Arizona's new immigration law is supposedly bad for business because it's driving illegal aliens out of the state: "Fleeing Phoenix out of fear of Arizona immigration law" by Nicholas Riccardi.
Someone buys a tote bag at Mr. Katchi's store in Phoenix. According to Riccardi, that "means that another one of Katchi's customers, mostly Latino immigrants, is packing to leave the state before what is touted as the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants takes effect July 29." Uh oh.
Further "proof" that the immigration law is wrecking the economy: several stores have closed, including a grocery store, a pizzeria and a furniture store. Plus, vacancies are up at apartment buildings. And -- hold onto your hat -- a clothing store called Eden Ware had no customers one afternoon when Riccardi was there.
Hey, Mr. Riccardi, have you been to Los Angeles recently? You know, the sanctuary city on steroids, that not only aids and abets illegal immigration here, but also joined Mexico and MALDEF in filing legal briefs to invalidate Arizona's law? The economy isn't exactly thriving here at Ground Zero, Sparky. If illegal aliens are supposedly so great for the economy, how come L.A.'s unemployment rate is much higher than the national and state averages?
Plus, why didn't you tour the government agencies, schools, emergency rooms and jails to see how the departure of illegal aliens from Arizona is affecting the other side of the ledger sheet, namely, tax expenditures necessitated by the wholesale disregard of federal immigration law?
Furthermore, why is there no discussion of the fact that the mere prospect of enforcement is making illegal aliens flee? Doesn't that shoot a rather large hole in the tired argument that we supposedly must grant amnesty because we supposedly cannot deport millions of people?
It astounds me the way in which the liberal media view cause and effect, often linking two unrelated things simply because they occur at the same time, but ignoring the big elephant in the room. Wasn't it the media that pushed and pushed for the recession for a whole year and a half before things were bad in the first place? This media is schizophrenic and cause oriented rather than focused on doing it's job of presenting the facts. It is trying to persuade people to their way of thinking. This is a very dangerous precedent and somehow something must be done. I'm not so sure the average person sees through the nonsense and thinks that now it is the new law that is causing the recession, and nothing else. I see it everyday, people tend to buy what the media sells. How can we protect the public from this media that has an agenda to fill and is Hell bent on filling it no matter the truth, no matter who it hurts and no matter the insanity of their illogical actions?
ReplyDeleteWhat would we do without the Sparkys of the world?
ReplyDeleteThey give writers so much to put their pens to with their inane illogical reasoning.
Here are some articles for Sparky to read. http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/07/06/20100706illegal-immigration-drug-trade.html
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to not reading the law prior to criticizing it. How many others have done the same thing but left it to the Liberals, Democrats(?), the ACLU & the unions to force their mis-guided agenda on the American citizens?
Closer to home, our LA City council should be ashamed of supporting an illegal act and aiding & abetting criminals.
Here is a question. If an illegal alien/gangbanger hadn't shot & killed Jamiel Andre Shaw (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340650,00.html), would he be dead now? Why isn't Villaraigosa outraged at this crime?
How many other crimes have the illegals caused? How many of their "accidents" have adversely affected our lives due to higher crime rate, overcrowded emergency rooms, an over-burdened law enforcement system, and higher insurance premiums?
Criminals should not be rewarded with amnesty and bypassing those waiting to immigrate legally into the U.S. nor should Arizona be punished for trying to uphold the law.
I particularly love the following line from the article:
ReplyDelete"Even people whose families use more government services than they pay in taxes still help the economy, said Judith Gans of the University of Arizona's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. In a 2008 study, she found that Arizona immigrants contributed $29 billion annually to the state economy, representing about 8% of its activity."
Really? People who consume more taxes than they pay "help the economy?" Do tell: how do you define "help the economy," Mr. Riccardi?
Do you mean help redistribute taxpayers' money to government bureaucracies and "anchor babies?" Is that what "help the economy" means?
Call me unimaginative, but I don't see how people who "use more government services than they pay in taxes" are helping the economy. Otherwise, Mexico would be frikkin' Monte Carlo now, wouldn't it?
So that's NOT a gain if they contribute $29 billion annually to the state economy? It is with the new math! ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhat does "contribute . . . to the state economy" mean? That is a vague term.
ReplyDeleteDoes she mean they were paid $29 billion for services they provided? Does she mean that $29 billion was spent by others to provide them with free education for their children, plus welfare, plus guards for those in jail? It is a meaningless, subjective term.
A more rigorous reporter might have spent more time on that empircal assertion, and less time on tote bags, closed pizzerias, etc.
"Does she mean they were paid $29 billion for services they provided? Does she mean that $29 billion was spent by others to provide them with free education for their children, plus welfare, plus guards for those in jail? It is a meaningless, subjective term."
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Better question---what do illegal aliens "contribute" to the economy that LEGAL immigrants and citizens who replaced them wouldn't? By definition, unskilled labor, which most illegal aliens are, is FUNGIBLE. Easily replaced by legal workers who can and would probably get higher wages without the presence of illegal aliens, pay more in taxes, and consume more.
Exactly.
ReplyDeleteBottom line: if importing poverty were good for a nation's economy, Mexico would be thriving.
This is a basic tenet of sovereignty having defined borders and control of them. SB 1070
ReplyDeletebrings back our sovereignty to each and every state if all states follow Arizona and of course if (I pray) Arizona wins!
I also hope that Walter Moore one day becomes Mayor of Los Angeles!
John and Ken did a dramatic reading of this article... Priceless.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe I missed it!!!!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the idiots that believe that illegals contribute to anything but crime, welfare rolls and a host of other problems, Just come to East Las Vegas if you want to see a town turned into TJ.
ReplyDeleteRemoving illegals from a state or neighborhood would not have much effect upon the already battered dismal economy. Arizona's UE rate matches or exceeds the 9.7% nationwide UE rate, and the states economy was already being shattered by plummeting RE values way before SB 1070 took effect.
ReplyDeleteHere in CA the economy went into recession starting in late 2007 and really nosedived in Sept/Oct 2008. CA has 3 million illegals and likely 10-15 million legalized green card immigrants. Having this huge population of immigrants did not prevent CA from having a 12.7 % UE rate(Real U-6 UE rate is 20-25%) or having plummeting RE values. The economy tanked regardless of CA's large 'industrious' immigrant population.
Removing large numbers of illegals from any given ghettoized LA hood heavily impacted by illegals, such as lennox, Wilmington, Maywood, Jefferson park, Pico-Union, Rampart, Boyle Hts, ect. would not effect these already severely blighted hoods one bit.
Yes, some local businesses which set up in these hoods will suffer and even close but so what! We are seeing a nationwide epidemic of business bankrupties due to this severe recession. LA Times tear-jerking article about local shops being effected by Arizona's SB 1070 seems to be a case of special pleading against enforcing our Federal & State immigration laws.
If you go into a typical inner LA ghettoized illegal-alien inundated hood such as Wilmington, Hunt park, East LA, Pacoima, ect., here are typical shops u find: check cashing, latino Ranch market,99 Ct store, auto body/repair/tire shops,auto salvage,saloons, taco wagons, liquor store, donut shop, small auto dealer, Mex seafood/taco restaurant, ect., The bigger operations are often financed by cartel drug money. Others are financed by immigrant business owners with $ acquired from underground economy scams/financial scams like unreported auto sales, auto/medi-cal insurance fraud or EIC tax fraud.
ReplyDeleteThe closing of a store in a ghettoized immigrant district is not a calamity. Another business often takes its place. Happens all the time. It is the nature of the huge 40% LA illegal alien-spawned underground economy.
Degoboy --
ReplyDeleteYou're kidding, right?
Do you SERIOUSLY contend that the presence or absence of millions of impoverished, uneducated people who do not speak the language, and who believe birth control is a sin, has no effect on the economic vitality of a nation, state, county or city?
Dear Walter,
ReplyDeleteI don't believe these poor illegals really believe that birth control is a sin. I believe it is the goal of the Mexican people to have as many babies as they can here in the U.S. in order to accomplish their goal of taking over the U.S. They express their views in the open!
These peasants are not all that religious in my view.
Any sin they commit can be overcome by going into church and confessing their sins into a Priests ear!
Shazzzam! They are free of sin and can go right back to sinning again!
A Mexican once said that "Cheating is part of marrage in Mexico". Does that sound like these people believe birth control is a sin?
In my opinion I think not.
The Los Angeles Times is not interested in passing on information about the realities of illegal immigration. The Times seeks to drum up sympathy for our undocumented friends and to convince its readers that legalizing them is a necessity. This is nothing new, it's been going on for years.
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