This is good news, less illegals! I just wish is wasn't due to the fact our economy sucks!
But many of us have said it all along. We don't need to do mass deportations. Take away the incentives:
(1) eVerify, hit the employers HARD, fine the HR people (much the way the FTC fines shock jocks and not just the station)! Don't allow the hiring of illegals!
(2) No free education
(3) No amnesty
(4) No free healthcare
(5) No bilingual education
Take away the incentive and they will leave! Then arrested the violent ones!
But many of us have said it all along. We don't need to do mass deportations. Take away the incentives:
(1) eVerify, hit the employers HARD, fine the HR people (much the way the FTC fines shock jocks and not just the station)! Don't allow the hiring of illegals!
(2) No free education
(3) No amnesty
(4) No free healthcare
(5) No bilingual education
Take away the incentive and they will leave! Then arrested the violent ones!
Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North
AGUA NEGRA, Mexico The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause: unheralded changes in Mexico that have made staying home more attractive.
A growing body of evidence suggests that a mix of developments expanding economic and educational opportunities, rising border crime and shrinking families are suppressing illegal traffic as much as economic slowdowns or immigrant crackdowns in the United States.
Here in the red-earth highlands of Jalisco, one of Mexicos top three states for emigration over the past century, a new dynamic has emerged. For a typical rural family like the Orozcos, heading to El Norte without papers is no longer an inevitable rite of passage. Instead, their homes are filling up with returning relatives; older brothers who once crossed illegally are awaiting visas; and the youngest Orozcos are staying put.
Im not going to go to the States because Im more concerned with my studies, said Angel Orozco, 18. Indeed, at the new technological institute where he is earning a degree in industrial engineering, all the students in a recent class said they were better educated than their parents and that they planned to stay in Mexico rather than go to the United States.
Douglas S. Massey, co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, an extensive, long-term survey in Mexican emigration hubs, said his research showed that interest in heading to the United States for the first time had fallen to its lowest level since at least the 1950s. No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped, Mr. Massey said, referring to illegal traffic. For the first time in 60 years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative.
The decline in illegal immigration, from a country responsible for roughly 6 of every 10 illegal immigrants in the United States, is stark. The Mexican census recently discovered four million more people in Mexico than had been projected, which officials attributed to a sharp decline in emigration.
American census figures analyzed by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center also show that the illegal Mexican population in the United States has shrunk and that fewer than 100,000 illegal border-crossers and visa-violators from Mexico settled in the United States in 2010, down from about 525,000 annually from 2000 to 2004. Although some advocates for more limited immigration argue that the Pew studies offer estimates that do not include short-term migrants, most experts agree that far fewer illegal immigrants have been arriving in recent years.
For Mexicans Looking North, a New Calculus Favors Home - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com