Sunday, July 25, 2010

LA RAZA RACIST MEX PROPAGANDA MACHINE

Mexico braces for
effects of Arizona
immigration law

Posted 45m ago

By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY

MEXICO CITY — The other side of the border is also
preparing for the implementation of Arizona's new
immigration law, which could lead to a surge of
deportees back to their country.

Migrant shelters along the border in Mexico say
they're bracing for new arrivals after the law goes
into effect Thursday.

Mexico's government has added more workers to its
consulate in Phoenix to assist detained Mexicans.
Migrants who have been deported say they're
watching to see how the law is enforced before
deciding whether to try again to cross the border
illegally into Arizona.

"On the plane, everybody was talking about the law,"
said Ernesto González, a deportee who arrived here
last week on a U.S. government flight from Tucson.
"Everybody knows it's coming."

Arizona's law makes it a state crime to be in the
country illegally. It allows police to check a person's
immigration status if the officer has reasonable
cause to suspect a person is in the country illegally.
The check can be made only during the course of a
lawful police action, such as a traffic stop or
investigation of a crime.

The law also allows Arizona citizens to sue police
departments if they feel the new law is not being
enforced — a provision related to so-called
"sanctuary cities," where local government officials
refuse to enforce anti-illegal immigration laws.

The Obama administration and several rights
groups have sued to stop the law from taking effect.
The Mexican government has filed a "friend of the
court" brief supporting them.

In Nogales, Sonora, the state shelter for migrant
children added 50 beds to the 100 it already had,
Director Maria Isabel Arvizu said. The San Juan
Bosco shelter in Nogales also is expecting more
migrants, Director Francisco Loureiro said.

"All of us are getting ready for people to come back,"
Arvizu said.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry declined to comment
on preparations for the law. But El Universal
newspaper reported that the consulate in Phoenix
increased its consular-protection staff from eight to
11 and is distributing pamphlets to inform
Mexicans about the law.

Across Mexico, radio talk shows, blogs and the
news media have turned Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
into a household name.

On Friday, a morning show on aired a comedy skit
in which an actor dressed as Brewer rampages
through Mexico City with a stun gun, zapping
people. The country's newspapers have been
running articles daily about the legal battle over the
law.

Academics in Mexico say they are paying attention
to the Arizona law and similar proposals in other U.
S. states, said Victor Manuel Sánchez, a researcher
at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, a
graduate school in Mexico City.

"It's going to have an effect on the ways people
migrate," Sánchez said.

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