Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.And it seems to be working. This week the Obama administration is hoping to get a temporary order to forestall enactment of the law, but that's looking a little doubtful. Chances are the law will begin as scheduled, nobody will be profiled, lefties will continue to get the vapors, and it will work as advertised.
A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.
"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered."
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.
The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico.
For those moving out, don't forget, there's always that sanctuary city in San Francisco.
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Kudos for Arizona. The cockroaches should flee for their lives before they are found to be breaking the law. If you are in the U.S. Illegally you are breaking the law and do not or should not get any of the benefits that law abiding citizens receive. There are hundred of aliens who have their name on a waiting list so they can follow the proper channels to attain U.S. citzenship and I applaud them. The Illegals should be arrested and shipped out of our country as soon as possible.
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