[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!!!

[Londo Molari]

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

I don’t that’s it at all. Its the slowdown in new construction — pretty soon the media will be pushing for unemployment benefits for illegals.

[Kenny Bunk]

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

Undeniably enforcement is probably having some effect. But simple arithmetic more than likely deserves the credit for the decline.

Olde México is a nation of some 100 Million people (a number that is evidently a closely guarded Mexican secret). One way or another there are already some 30 Million Mexicans here (another closely guarded secret).

Maybe it sounds stupid, but the most probable reason Mexican immigration is slowing down just might be that they are running short of Mexicans. I personally have visited villages where there seem to be mostly only old-timers and kids, with a few young mothers. Of course, the shortfall is being made up to some extent by our travelling vecinos from countries further south, but they simply haven't got the people pool that México does, or did.

Mexicans, legal and illegal, and their offspring will shortly comprise about a third of our population. "Shortly," to me means about 50 years.