Miami Herald : "When rights collide with responsibilities"

[XanaDUer]

“It’s been amazing since we started these meetings, just how prevalent the immigration issue is, and how the negativity has affected every Hispanic and Latino community. They’re facing prejudice and being targeted and fear even going to work,” Alvarez said.

“We’re not immune,” Alvarez said. “I keep telling people this issue is going to affect us here. Look what almost happened in the Legislature, which almost passed an Arizona-style immigration law. … Everyone agrees our borders should be secure, but we also need to find a way to get a reasonable federal immigration policy.”

He’s right. Tea Party activists are now calling Miami-Dade Florida’s “Sanctuary County,” I tell him.
“It’s not a sanctuary,” Alvarez notes, “It’s an economic engine.”


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/04/2250699/when-rights-collide-with-responsibilities.html#ixzz1OP923pNS

[Edweird]

1. 'economic engine' my ass. I lived and worked there. Shit wages with workers treated like garbage.

It's a real 'workers paradise'....
This is more race to the bottom bullshit.
Every country - even third world shit holes - regulates their immigration and they do it to protect the quality of life and wages of their citizens.

[XanaDUer]

2. I'm from there, and I wanted to move back

but I'm not-

What you say is true. Of course, now that I've worked in places like Georgia, S. Fl seemed like a workers' paradise...but that's another story.

What is funny about this is the long-time support of Republicans from S. Florida's Cuban community. I do understand the younger generations are trending away from the Mas Canosa-types, still...

[DonCoquixote]

3. Florida is HELL

and I say that as one who lives here...