Polls show the measure is backed by a solid majority of Americans and by 65 percent of AZ voters
Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few
clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.
A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi
Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her
family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on
illegal immigrants.
"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said
Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative.
They have us cornered."
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across
Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend
as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.
The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal
immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers,
landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of
Arizona, which borders Mexico.
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Polls show the measure is backed by a solid majority of Americans and by 65 percent of AZ voters