[Types_with_Fist]

What's behind the apparent decline?

Enough of them are here to cause sufficient saturation of the labor market and a downturn in wages? Only children and older folks are left in Mexico? It has to be something like that because we sure aren't stopping them from coming.

[MarkT]

"Sporadic employment isn't the half of it. Martinez said anxiety is also running high among undocumented workers about stepped-up workplace raids, deportations and increasing demands by U.S. employers for proof that they are in the country legally."

Enforcing the law is working? Who would have thunk it!!!

[bcsco]

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Talk radio puts immigration reform in spotlight (Iowa-FAIR talk radio row)

Area illegal immigration foe targets Huckabee ("..favors Touchback Amnesty")

Campo Minutemen Highway Clean up 12/29/2007

The Savage Silencing of Mexico's Musicians -- Killings Bear Hallmarks Of Drug Cartel Hitmen

Program aims to broaden the reach of remittances Mexico pushes for investment in agribusinesses

FAIR Releasing Major Study on Illegal Immigration Costs (usual suspects already attacking FAIR)

Immigration experts: New form will fight job fraud

Thompson supports better immigration policies

Churches Here Embrace Immigrants and Their Languages

Prof Says Business Owners Ought to Be Obliged to Be Multilingual

Immigrants worried about losing mobile homes, cars

Immigration Ground Zero

[billybudd]

Notice all the articles in the media are now saying illegal immigration is slowing down and not a problem anymore. The liberal media is trying to take the issue off the table for the 2008 elections. Hopefully nobody buys this BS.

[upchuck]

What's behind the apparent decline?

Well, let's see...

President Bush? Nope, the decline is not his fault (For once!).

John McCain (MANIAC-AZ)? Nope, the decline is not his fault.

Senator Pandsey Grahamnesty (RINO-SC)? Nope, the decline is not his fault.

Teddy "Fat Swimmer" Kennedy(RAT-MA)? Nope, the decline is not his fault.

Mike Huckles (RINO presidential candidate)? Nope, the decline is not his fault.

Mittttt Romney (FLIPFLOPPER-MA)? Nope, the decline is not his fault.

That's about everybody I guess. Okay, I give up? Who is to blame? Our economy is going to Hell in a hand basket. We need someone to stand up and be a man and accept responsibility for this national travesty.

[wolfcreek]

“desperation is growing among the day laborers with whom he competes for odd jobs.”

There’s so many here they’re crowding each other out.

[relictele]

Since they couldn’t count them then, how can they count them now?

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh, puleez. It’s wintertime and the crossings always slow down at this time of year.

Dayum, I wish I had $1000 extra every month. Maybe I should camp out at day labor sites and not pay taxes.

[Joe Boucher]

For years I’ve known that the only way to deal with the illegal problem was to take action against employers who hire illegals, action against folks who rent to illegals or in any way help known illegals.
The new Arizona law seems to be doing the trick. Time to enforce our laws and kick ALL illegals out of our country.

[uncitizen]

How many articles have i seen on this topic in the last few days? 4 or 5. So, all of a sudden the media noticed the day before yesterday that the flow of illegals into our country has ebbed and/or so many of them are going back to Mexico?? Come on, this is the media trying to convince us that we don’t have this problem anymore. Thus, it’s not issue that presidential candidates need talk about much.

[Carbonado]

OK guys, just move along. Nothing to see here.

Just forget about the 20 million already here.

Go back to sleep. Everything is fine.

Liberalism + MSM = filth. It always adds up to the same thing.

[Carbonado]

OK guys, just move along. Nothing to see here.

Just forget about the 20 million already here.

Go back to sleep. Everything is fine.

Liberalism + MSM = filth. It always adds up to the same thing.

[Teacher317]

What's behind the apparent decline?

They're all here.

[kalee]

So when is Martinez going home?

[Clemenza]

The downturn in the influx in the New York/New Jersey area became noticeable about three years ago. It seemed that the Mexicans/Guatemalans who started coming here in large numbers since the early 90s stopped coming is as large numbers.

Don't talk to many Mexicans/Guatemalans in the area, but the Ecuadorians and Brazilians I know of are leaving due to the decline in the dollar exchange rate. That and the fact that Italy and Spain have a reputation for being "welcoming" to Latin American immigrants (which is understandable considering the alternative).

[gubamyster]

ping

[pulaskibush]

The flow of illegals needs to slow to 0, and we need to see a flow of deported illegals flow back to their so called countries!

[Perchant]

The liberals don’t want this as a campaign issue so expect to hear lots of media assertions that the problem is magically fixing itself.

[DesScorp]

Amazing how simply enforcing existing laws works.

[dragnet2]

MEXICO CITY - Lorenzo Martinez, an illegal immigrant who has lived in Los Angeles for six years,has a message for his kin in Mexico's Hidalgo state: Stay put. "Better not to come," Martinez said of anyone thinking about crossing into the U.S. illegally. "The situation is really bad."