European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Illegal aliens fear new . Law by Peter Applebome new York times n april 1982. Linico Jaimes and his wife Eustolia. Paid $500 to smugglers who helped item across the Rio Grande from Piedras Negros. Mexico. 1o Eagle pass. Texas and eventually to Houston where they have resided worked and Given Bush to two daughters for a Lime they dreamed of starting a business but now their plans Ore much simpler to return Homo to the communal term n the Contra mexican stale of Michoacan whore Jaimes family lives at subsistence level by harvesting Corn and sesame. Jaimes said most of his friends from Michoacan planned logo Home Loo. Before it you were caught you could leave and Ihnn return said Jaimes a 23-year-old who has two part Lime jobs in Houston. Bui now you Don t have anything to come Bach  behind their new plans is he new . Immigration Law which offers Legal status for illegal aliens who have lived in the United states continuously since before Jan. 1.1962. For the Jameses and Many others who do no qualify however tha Job prospects Hal helped draw them to the untied states now seem dim and tens of thousands Are confronting the possibility of having to leave. That is because the new Law also prohibits employers from hiring foreign nationals who Are in the country illegally like he Jaimes family. For the first Lima employers face lines and possible imprisonment for hiring such people and the employers seem to be taking the Law seriously. Some have even Laid eff illegal aliens hired before the Law look effect nov. 6, although the Law allows continued employment Lor those with jobs. Aliens and groups Hal work with them around the nation say that so far there has been More fear and confusion than emigration and Many aliens Are staying where they Are Lor now believing that the Law will probably not be enforced rigorously enough to change their lives radically or thai their Home countries offer too Little to warrant any thought of resuming. But some aliens have already left and others Are planning to. Many particularly salvadorans have been desperately fleeing to Canada. Immigration of Licals there tend o View them As Politico refugees rather than decor Labe illegal immigrants although Canadian policies have been tightened in an Effort to curb abuse. Other aliens Tike the Jaimesen Are reluctantly planning to return Home where the economic prospects they fled have Only become worse since they left. Ii seems hopeless to them said Ralph Carrasco director of the Centra de Inlo Macion a hispanic Community Center in Tyler Texas i know six families that just packed up and left. The Media keeps letting them to wait but they Aren t Able 1o find work or get solid information about it. One of the last families who came by Here to see me said the biggest business to gel into is  the stories of those who have led or Are planning to leave vary greatly but they share a fear of not being Able to support themselves under the new Law. There Are Jesus and Maria two bolivians who have lived in Houston illegally since March 1982 and asked that their last name not be used. They have two children on he Honor Roll in the Public schools a comfortable apartment Lull of new furniture and both have jobs. He worked As an accountant in Bolivia and As 3 bartender Here. She works for a Home building company. He feels certain he Mill not be Able to keep his bar tending Job indefinitely and in january he tried to buy a liquor store bul could not get a loan. They now plan to set their furniture return to Santa Cruz. Bolivia and then move to Brazil which is Home to thousands of bolivian immigrants there is Francilo Marroquin a 23-year-old salvadoran who has lived in new Voit since 1363. Alter feeling the continuing unreal in his native country. He has worked his Way up from dishwasher to Busboy to his present Obas a waiter at an italian restaurant in Hoboken n j i probably can t stay a Long time Here he said. Sooner or later they la kick me Oul of the country. So i decided that i should go to Canada because in Canada i will have much More Chance of slaying out of of  there Are sheif Sobarzo. Sylvia Vargas Carlos Luscoro and Juana Isabel Cervantes Lour former students in Anna Woolfolk s bilingual third Grade class in Tucson Ariz. Woolfolk said All returned with their families to Mexico after the Law was passed they loll because their fathers had no documentation to allow them to work according to other students in the class. A Tot of people Are really scared Woolfolk said. The stones run like old wives tales. One of my students came in and said my dad says we have to leave because of the War i said. What War he said the War a United Stales declared against Mexico that s what they think. And this is How they see it. They think Hal it s a  still if some Are going groups that work with illegal aliens say the majority Are taking a Wail and see Altitude toward the new Law. Much of the reason is economic. Even ii Fite becomes tougher hero any work in the United slates will pay far better than comparable work in Mexico. The Rev Gregory Boyle pastor of the overwhelmingly hispanic Dolores Mission in East los Angeles said he was counselling aliens not to leave the country until the Law s effects became clearer. While Tome mexicans appear to be going Back he said others Are continuing to come Flo the United states despite the new Law. Most mexicans Are too aware of the worsening economics of their own country to move Back there to said. One Ohhet emotions is kind of a denial said Boyle a roman Catholic. One woman told me i can t go Back. I can t scrape up enough Money in Mexico to buy a Tortilla " that is the perspective of a 30-year-old illegal alien in san Antonio who asked not to be identified. He said he had been moving Back and Forth Between Mexico and. Texas for the last 14 years. He said he earned about �160 a week doing ranch work in South Texas. In Mexico he said he could make about 10,000 pesos a week or about $10. I have no intention of Ever returning to Mexico he said i Don t care what the Law is i have no doubt Hal i can find work even in it gels a Little harder. These ranches around Here need people like me. I be been hiding from the Law for 14 years and i know How to do  mexicans have played cat and mouse games with the . Immigration and naturalization service for generations. They Are thus less Likely than salvadorans who have Little experience with United Stales immigration Laws to panic about the new one immigration lawyers and Counselor say. Nth Yort to twi or Ioanna Wood Tolu who teaches  think fade class in Tucson my people an nutty  Irineo Jaime Forir at i bakery in Houston but plans to return to the farm he Ctm from in metco. Page 16 the stalls and stripes sunday March 8,19b7