Comments about ‘Alabama immigrants flee after judge upholds harsh immigration law’

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"...which will surely deal a significant blow to the state's economy."

That's a lie. The illegal invasion is proven to have resulted in a significant blow to the state's economy and the economy of the country.

This law is what all states should pass and then the illegals would flee back home. I believe in immigration, the legal kind. I believe in being compassionate.But I also believe in honoring and sustaining the law, which too many people have forgotten. I applaud those that are here legally and have done what they needed to do to become legal, I don't believe in a guest worker program or any form of amnesty and I believe that states have the right to pass laws for their own states.

Let's adopt that law.

I think Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn is very courageous. She is a fine lady and I think Utah would be greatly enhanced if she were to move here. We should start a movement to persuade her to move here.

To all Hispanics(illegals) fleeing Alabama: Come to Utah where we pass laws that welcome you. Way to go Alabama!

"The evidence is clear..." Please! The law just went into effect, the results are not remotely clear at this point. The article states taxes paid by illegal immegrants but doesn't mention anything about service costs. How does the tax money gained from illegal immegrants compare with the cost of social services they required? No one knows at this point.
Children stuggling in school should get more help now because teachers will not be overwhelmed with students who cannot speak english.

I have always said that if you make it unpalitable as apposed to a reward for breaking the law for these people to be here, they will leave. We saw the mass exoduse from Ariz. and now from Ala. Come on Utah get a clue!

Alabama has made a good start. Time for all other states to do the same. Send the illegal aliens home, where they belong. If they want to come into the United States make them do legally.

I suspect there will be a significant number of construction jobs opening up in Alabama.

Alabama's classrooms will now be less crowded.

Alabama's hospitals and public clinics will now be providing fewer free services and will thus require fewer subsidies from state and local governments. they will be able to provide more timely service to other patients.

Alabama's social services will be less burdened and can better aid legal residents.

With fewer subsidies going to health services and social services, Alabama can cut local taxes and spur further economic development.

demogagues looking to increase the dependent underclass and their own power base are in mourning.

To those who say "You cannot deport 14 million illegals", Alabama provides the answer. The Alabama law results in illegals leaving on their own. The same would happen in any state or the entire country. I have been taught to sustain, honor and obey the law my entire life. I thought principle was sacrosanct. But now there are shades of legal/illegal?

Others have labeled the situation alarming. The decision will have grave implications for Alabama's economy, wrote Suman Raghunahan, director of policy and strategic relationships at the Progressive States Network. Undocumented workers in Alabama paid $130,3 million in state and local taxes in 2010, Raghunahan reported. Recent analysis have concluded that the state could lose $2.6 billion in economic activity if undocumented immigrants flee the state.

PROGRESSIVE States Network is the key to Raghunahan's faulty thinking.

The 130 mil loss of tax revenue will be more than offset by the reduced drain on the states budget as a result of socialistic redistribution of wealth and the loss of 2.6 bil of economic activity should easily be made up by putting the unemployed in Alabama to work filling the jobs the others left behind, unless of course, the out migration of school children reduces the amount of money the state receives from the rest of us through education subsidy payments.

Rounding people up and sending them home is not needed. Arizona and Alabama have shown us that enforcement does that.

People screamed Arizona would go broke. They are doing fine, it's California that's surviving on Federal loans.

Please be clear, I'm all for legal immigration. Incentivizing illegal behavior is truly what the current system does. To put it simply, that's a BAD idea. But as I've said before, I think the quotas are small compared to what they should be. Just as it did with other immigrant groups in U.S. history, I think a legal, orderly immigration of larger numbers of Hispanics just might do the country some good.

On another note, illegal immigrants or not, I wouldn't wish the situation in Alabama on anyone. To be in a home you must leave and sell for a song. To feel like you have to pull your child from school. To cause a mass exodus. These are extremes. There has to be a more compassionate way to deal with illegal immigration. Seriously, doesn't there? We let this situation build up over decades, and I think it may take a while to solve in a humane way. We winked at it for so long.

By the way, I don't think the majority of the Hispanics who leave will go back home to Mexico. They'll end up in some other state.

Just some thoughts.

If anything, high school graduatue workers will see a rise in their wages and everyone will see an increase in their standard of living (fewer indiviuals feeding off government services- education, medical, food stamps, medicaid,etc). And the unemployed in the state will FINALLY find jobs. We need to do the same in Utah, repeal HB116, make sure Gov. Herbert isn't re-elected, and create laws like this. This is a compassionate thing to do for CITIZENS.

What part of CRIMINAL don't these "illegal" folks understand? Good on the Judge for the ruling. Letting these illegal people get a pass is spitting on us all and most on those who jumped through all the hoops to come here legally.

Get us more Judges and Police willing to enforce immigrations law.

@very concerned

Over the past 10 years we have averaged over one million people each year coming here on green cards. Even with 22 million Americans out of work. I think that is more than enough, probably to many considering our economic problems.

Of that number, 36% of our green cards went to Hispanics. More than any other group. It's hard to argue for more, it's preferential treatment right now that is unfair to other groups.

People who have been here for 10 or 20 years have lived off the taxpayer, and cheated Americans for years. I think they have had it pretty good, and should not complain about the work ending and having to move.

Many people in this country have to move for work.

It's not just Wall street than needs to be honest. American business should hang it's head in shame.

And they aren't just picking fruit. Alot of Mexicans are making good money on petro-chemical plant seasonal contruction jobs. I was on a turnaround in Port Arthur, TX, and about 600 Mexican men and women were on the job as scaffold-builders and insulators making $28 to $35 an hour plus overtime and per diem during the 7-days a week 12-hours a day project that lasted 4 months. They told me they had jobs lined up all that fall and winter all across the US. Massive amounts of money being wired back home.

to anti-liar and RinAZ the both of ya got that right ! and to md yeah I want UT to adopt that law to ! and if the law makers wont do it then vote them out and put in someone who will

With those pesky illegals out of the way, US Citizens can now fulfill their lifelong dreams of being low-income agricultural workers.