Right Neighborly of You
Not a problem, really. O Cánada translates easily into Spanish.
Ortega’s dream, as he recounted it Tuesday standing outside a room at a Windsor motel, is now but a memory. He is one of an estimated 180 Mexicans from Florida who’ve rushed across the border and into Windsor to claim refugee status, fleeing a crackdown on illegal aliens in Florida.
Local agencies that work with refugees have been told to brace for 4,000 to 8,000 refugee claimants.
Every single day this month, Mexican nationals who have been living illegally in Florida — some for a dozen years or more — are turning up at the Windsor-Detroit border seeking refugee status.
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“Social services, they help us too much,” he said. “I want to say thanks and to Canadians ‘thanks.’”
De nada.
Kathy Shaidle, or as I call her, Orlanda Furiosa, is also on it:
The law office down my street that specializes in refugee claims recently hoisted a huge banner on the side of its building, saying “Spanish spoken here” (in Spanish, of course).
Don’t you love what the Salvation Army is doing with your kettle donations? They’re basically a middle man between the government and the Holiday Inn. It’s like they’re Expedia for Mexicans now.