Immigrant families leave Arizona and tough new law
By Amanda Lee Myers
Associated Press Writer / June 22, 2010
Associated Press Writer / June 22, 2010
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PHOENIX—"Cinco dolares," Silvia Arias says when asked the price of car polish at a garage sale that she and two close friends, Minerva Ruiz and Claudia Suriano, are holding. "Five dollars." Another sale is made.
The three women planned the sale to raise money to leave Arizona. Though all are longtime residents, viewed as pillars of parental support at the neighborhood elementary school, they're also illegal immigrants from Mexico. And along with many others, they want to escape a tough new state law whose stated intention is unambiguous: To drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona and to discourage them from coming here.
There is no official data tracking how many are leaving as a result. "It's something that's really tough to get a handle on numerically," said Bill
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