They are free to go back home..dontcha know?

What about the legal citizens?? Were they exempt from the ravages of the storm?
WHAT idiot wrote this story?
Reminds me of the "world ends tomorrow
women and children to suffer"

World ends, poor hit the hardest.

...immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

I might give the ass. press a little credit for using ´illegally´, but nope. They are illegal aliens. And little Josias wouldn´t be in this predicament if his papa hadn´t come to this country illegally.

Call it a hunch, but I bet the ass. pressers left out the fact the sad statement made by illegal alien Miguel was via a translator.

According to AP, illegals feel Badder & deserve More than those who worked their entire lives & lost everything... disgusting.

Homeless and jobless? Lucky for them they are now freed up to go home and find jobs and leave us the hell alone!

Is this hit piece suggesting we should feel some sort of empathy for the illegals?

Headline tells you where that story will go.

Amended cliche "World ends. Women, children, and immigrants hit hardest."

Guess what? If they hadn´t crossed the border illegally, they wouldn´t be in their present predicament.

There is human suffering here and I don´t wish to take away from that fact. I do not advocate withholding help but it should be charitable help not taxpayer funded help. Moreover, if they are here illegally then they need to be deported. We, as a country, should be allowed to decide who we permit into our country - which is what we have done by having immigration laws. Simply put not everyone is welcome - no more than I would be allowed to walk into any house I saw that I liked without permission.

is this the price you pay for breaking the law???

Its warm and dry in Mexico.

The Mexican Government should be providing travel tickets to all those illegal Mexicans so that they can go back to Mexico. If the Mexican Government did that, you would think that the US Immigration Authorities would cooperate.

Can´t have any of that happening. Quick, grant them citizenship , do a ten minute security check and hire them for the TSA. See how quickly the employment numbers grow in this booming economy.

Go home & be there in time for Christmas.

I read the article kinda fast, but I only recall one instance calling them ´´illegal´´ and one using the word ´´undocumented´´. For the most part, the impression left was that of an ordinary immigrant...

It is just as likely that these illegals have come to the area AFTER Sandy, because they figured there would be handouts all around.

If I left my wallet at home with my driver´s license in it, would that be illegal or would I just be undocumented?

Cry me a Rio (Grande or otherwise).

Anyone else having a problem with the person that rented housing to illegals or the ones that hired illegals prior to the storm ?

Calderon coming here to show them how to apply for US aid ? How about he gives them a free plane ride home where it´s warm and sunny instead ?

So what.

Off topic. This asinine article made so angry that I typed an ugly reply that I am ashamed of. At the last second it occurred to me that I was one mouse click away from a lifetime ban from this site. My famous temper is at the boiling point ever since election night when I became sick over the realization that over 50 percent of the voters are not willing to accept anything other than a welfare state. It required two strong prescription medications to keep me out of the hospital.

Even though it´s understood that It is irrational to make myself sick over events I cannot control, I did just that. Therefore, in the selfish interest of my health, my best option is a virtual news blackout, which includes a self imposed moratorium from this site.

So long.

AG

"Illegal Mexican immigrants in NY
and NJ left homeless, jobless
in Superstorm Sandy’s aftermath"

BOO FRAZZLIN´ HOO!

Mexican´s may be some of the hardest working people to be found, but they are also totally indifferent to the law, and eager to ´get over on the system´!

#22, believe me, I know. Here´s what I´m doing: Pick and choose, read things that uplift rather than downcast. I´d like to think you (and Hazy, and Desert Fox, and...) are still out there somewhere watching in on us. If not, farewell, my friend.

´Officials from the Mexican government have visited shelters in New York and New Jersey looking for immigrants to help, informing them on how to obtain food stamps, financial assistance from FEMA or the Mexican government.´. Oh please, with the $180,000 the mexican government has available to help. why don´t they just send planes into the area take them back to Mexico. Why are they our problem?

Sometimes I wonder if articles like this are written with the intention to deliberately infuriate us. A thumb in our eye. Of course it is tragic when a family loses everything. But the illegals were not supposed to have anything here in the first place so it is difficult to work up any sympathy for their material losses. It is just stuff anyway.

And as to #22, I haven´t given up on 50% of my fellow Americans just yet. Perhaps they just wanted so badly to believe the fantasy, all warm puppies and happy happy, that they just could not bring themselves to give it up just yet. America in denial. No one wins elections by bursting that delusion, just like no one endears himself to his friend by informing him that his dream girlfriend is really a lying tramp. Chances are he won´t believe you anyway. Just like 50% of the electorate. Taking a long view lowers blood pressure.

Why don´t they just drop off some empty shipping containers? they´d feel right at home sleeping in those things.They´re the latest style in Detroit,why not there?

"And many have returned to damaged, powerless, moldy(sic) homes because they have no other place to stay" Why not back to sunny Mexico?.

They were homeless when they left their homes in Mexico.

#22
I´ve written those replies a 100 times and have actually hit the button twice.
If you´ve been here for a long time, then you know that these stories are recycled to the point where eventually we won´t even need reporters. Someone at AP will just type in some keywords (immigrant, storm damage, Mexico) and the story will write itself. Heck, we may already be there. If you´re going to have a self-imposed blackout, might I suggest you fill the void with a fresh face, such as cute little kitty. Things like that go a surprisingly long way. It´s tough to be bitter with a little kitten in your arms. I watched it work when my father was dying. Give it a thought.

Give them a hot meal and a bus ticket. They need to go back home for a while.

Rahm will welcome them to Chicago to join the voter rolls.

I thought they were here doing work white men won´t do. With all the storm damage they should be raking it in!

The little woman tells the story of her parents who pulled their northern prairie life up by the roots and moved to AZ because a doctor told my father-in-law that the warm, dry air would help relieve her brother´s asthma. They spent nearly a year there and turns out that it may just have been allergies and they returned to SD.She doesn´t remember the Associated Press or even the Argus Leader seeking him out for a human interest, heroic victim story.

It´s just what you used to do in this country.