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Tue, Mar 28 2006
Open door policy might bring crowds—to Mexico
I thought it was interesting that 400-450 high school students in Salinas walked out of class to march for illegal immigrants' rights yesterday. Watsonville, which has perhaps a third of the population Salinas has, but is growing rapidly, had some 800 students in the streets. There were other protests (including people of all ages) this past Saturday. There were marches in many states, although some states had much smaller numbers of people involved.
Our California demographics mean that we have a high number of both legal and illegal immigrants from Mexico. The logistics of our geographical location also contribute to these statistics. But folks who must fly into our country have immigrant concerns too. It's physically impossible for people from China or Russia or Australia to walk directly into the US from their own country. If the lawmakers here decide to make amnesty or guest worker status more difficult to obtain, because of the relatively easy physical access that Mexican immigrants have to our borders we may see immigrants from other countries begin choosing to go through Mexico or Canada first in order to gain access. It might eventually become a very large issue for the Mexican authorities as they begin dealing with an influx of immigrants from overseas.
posted at: 06:49 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
I thought it was interesting that 400-450 high school students in Salinas walked out of class to march for illegal immigrants' rights yesterday. Watsonville, which has perhaps a third of the population Salinas has, but is growing rapidly, had some 800 students in the streets. There were other protests (including people of all ages) this past Saturday. There were marches in many states, although some states had much smaller numbers of people involved.
Our California demographics mean that we have a high number of both legal and illegal immigrants from Mexico. The logistics of our geographical location also contribute to these statistics. But folks who must fly into our country have immigrant concerns too. It's physically impossible for people from China or Russia or Australia to walk directly into the US from their own country. If the lawmakers here decide to make amnesty or guest worker status more difficult to obtain, because of the relatively easy physical access that Mexican immigrants have to our borders we may see immigrants from other countries begin choosing to go through Mexico or Canada first in order to gain access. It might eventually become a very large issue for the Mexican authorities as they begin dealing with an influx of immigrants from overseas.
posted at: 06:49 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
