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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
News Welcome to New Mexico
Posted by Mari Herreras on Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Despite the recent SB 1070 injunction, scared migrants are flocking to New Mexico. Read the story here.
New Mexico is an attractive alternative, for several reasons beyond its proximity next door to Arizona. New Mexico, unlike Arizona, issues driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants who live there and have ID cards from the Mexican consulate. (Indeed, the New Mexico Department of Taxation and Revenue, which oversees the Motor Vehicle Department, reports a 30 percent increase in the number of new licenses issued by the state this spring over the same period last year. Asked whether this might be due to a migration from Arizona, S.U. Mahesh, the spokesman for the New Mexico MVD, said, “We can’t speculate.”)
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Now they are calling them unauthorized immigrants. You can call them unauthorized immigrants, undocumented immigrants, or any name you want. It only means one thing, they are illegal immigrants. As in criminal illegal immigrants which is my favorite name for them because it is the truth.
I'm sure New Mexico will prosper because of it.
Note to the reptilian brain above: You can't criminalize people because you don't like them, it's not the American way.
It does not matter whether you like a person or not. If they commit a crime, they are criminals. It does not matter whether they are doing it to have a better life or give their children better opportunities. If they commit a crime, they are criminals. If I rob a bank or commit another type theft because I want or need or want money for a better life or to give my children better opportunities, as a US citizen am I absolved from guilt? Illegal immigrant and their supporters are undermining the rule of law in that they think they can be a law unto themselves. A crime is a crime no matter what kind of flimsy rationalization you use.
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