While members of the Democratic Party are gathered in the Pepsi Center to support Senator Barack Obama as the party’s nominee in the presidential campaign, Mexicans working just seven miles away, on Federal Boulevard, are living a very different reality.
Luis Carlos Ruiz, owner of the auto shop Transmissions Ruiz, says that even though he is leaning toward Obama because of his position on immigration, Denver’s immigrant community has been greatly affected by local ordinances that attack the undocumented.
“Now, if you’re driving without a license, they’ll take your car and you have no way of getting it back without papers,” says Ruiz.
Popularity: 11% [?]
September 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
It must be hell being a criminal (illegally trespassing in the U.S.) with all the associated problems. I wanted to move to Canada when Bush was put in office until I saw that it would take $2,000 just to apply for entry….You see, I wouldn’t disrespect Canada by entering illegally.
I continually hear about the “poor treatment of ‘immegrants’”. Yoo hoo. Immegrants enter legally. Illegal aliens is the proper term. And how can they vote, anyway? I hope this isn’t true.