Illegals leaving the US

Well it seems a sluggish economy and enforcement of our laws is causing the illegal population to decrease.


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Among the findings:

Our best estimate is that the illegal immigrant population has declined by 11 percent through May 2008 after hitting a peak in August 2007.

The implied decline in the illegal population is 1.3 million since last summer, from 12.5 million to 11.2 million today.

The estimated decline of the illegal population is at least seven times larger than the number of illegal aliens removed by the government in the last 10 months, so most of the decline is due to illegal immigrants leaving the country on their own.

One indication that stepped-up enforcement is responsible for the decline is that only the illegal immigrant population seems to be affected; the legal immigrant population continues to grow.

Another indication enforcement is causing the decline is that the illegal immigrant population began falling before there was a significant rise in their unemployment rate.

The importance of enforcement is also suggested by the fact that the current decline is already significantly larger than the decline during the last recession, and officially the country has not yet entered a recession.

While the decline began before unemployment rose, the evidence indicates that unemployment has increased among illegal immigrants, so the economic slow-down is likely to be at least partly responsible for the decline in the number of illegal immigrants.

There is good evidence that the illegal population grew last summer while Congress was considering legalizing illegal immigrants. When that legislation failed to pass, the illegal population began to fall almost immediately.

If the decline were sustained, it would reduce the illegal population by one-half in the next five years

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=199984

Deportation through attrition... and they said it wouldn't work. Just one more thing liberals were wrong about.

Pale Rider wrote:Deportation through attrition... and they said it wouldn't work. Just one more thing liberals were wrong about.

It would be much easier and faster to list what libs have been write about

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More and more of them are leaving Arizona for other parts of the country because they don't want to be arrested and spend time in our jail before being deported back to good old Mexico.

No thanks to the feds for all of this though, it's all local governments doing stuff that gets them to pack up.

Look at this from the Washington Compost


Herndon Could Tighten Screws On Day Laborers

By Sandhya Somashekhar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 15, 2008; Page B01

Herndon officials are considering regulations to make the community inhospitable to day laborers, who have returned to sidewalks and street corners since the town shuttered a controversial job center for the mostly Hispanic workers last year.

Town officials want to step up police activity and zoning enforcement where the workers gather, ban carryout alcoholic beverage sales downtown and remove the pay phones that the workers use to call their home countries. They want to institute a permitting process for homeowners to rent out rooms, in hopes of reducing the number of workers living in crowded conditions. They also want to confiscate bicycles -- a common mode of transport for the workers -- that are parked illegally in public places.

The measures are designed to make life difficult for day laborers. The workers have a constitutional right to solicit jobs in public, but their presence has infuriated town leaders, who say they are a nuisance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403259.html

The trend is to get tough on illegals, whether the idiots in Washington do anything about it or not. I just hope mcamnesty, if he gets elected, doesn't screw it up.

Pale Rider wrote:The trend is to get tough on illegals, whether the idiots in Washington do anything about it or not. I just hope mcamnesty, if he gets elected, doesn't screw it up.

McCain shoould have gotten that message - but I still have my doubts