Come for the article, stay for the comments. First, from The Fayetteville Observer:

El Ranchero, a Mexican grocery store in Lumberton, used to be a well-known spot for immigrants to find anything from fresh produce to the latest Mexican music CDs.

Now it’s the place to buy a one-way ticket back to Mexico – with buses departing seven days a week.

“Nobody wants to give us steady work,” Dagoberto Garcia said in Spanish as he waited with four other men under the shade of an awning. “For many years, places like the meat-processing plants and farms welcomed us with open arms. Today, they won’t even let us on the premises to apply for work.

“I’m going home and coming back when it gets better.”

Store owner Enrique Mendoza said the lack of work for undocumented immigrants at the meat plants owned by Mountaire Farms LLC, House of Raeford Farms Inc. and Smithfield Foods Inc. has made it impossible for the men to stay.

“I’ve sold thousands of bus tickets over the last two years,” Mendoza said. “Many of these people were customers for over a decade.”

Ricardo Herrera, a Mexican from the state of Guanajuato, said about 75 immigrants worked at his last job on Fort Bragg. Now there are fewer than 20, Herrera said as he waited for the bus. … In addition to fickle employers and a wobbly economy, immigrant laborers such as Garcia and Herrara say controversial deportation efforts, including the 287(g) program, are prompting them to leave North Carolina. The 287(g) program is named after a section of the federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.

And from the comments, “Paul” says:

I look at it like this. Mexico for Mexicans. Fayetteville for the Fayettenamese, therefore, no more annexation!

Not exactly a bumper sticker, but catchy.