Tide of illegal immigrants now being reversed

[Midnight Mike]

31-July-2008

Washington - Some 1.3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the summer of 2007. If the trend continues, according to a new study, the nation's illegal population will drop by half in the next five years.

Moreover, reports the Center for Immigration Studies, young Hispanic immigrants began heading south before the nation's economy did – a clue that what's driving the new outmigration is a stepped-up border and workplace enforcement, not a souring US job market.
The source of the report – a think tank with a record of opposing illegal and even some legal immigration – is controversial in immigrant communities. But its findings could help frame the debate in a new Congress and a new administration.

The key conclusion is that enforcement, not the economy, is driving the decision to self-deport.

"The dropoff in illegal immigration seems to occur before there is a runup in their unemployment rate," says Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080731/ts_csm/adepart

[Matt Molnar]

Maybe Mexico is just running out of people to ship up here?

[T-Bird76]

Maybe Mexico is just running out of people to ship up here?

Nah all it means is they finally reached the U.S Candain boarder and are there now.