There used to be FAR more illegals working construction here.
Now, they are mostly gone.
The problem really was out of hand.
actual business card slipped onto car windows at the local Home Depot
Posted on 09/02/2010 5:21:18 AM PDT by inflorida
The threat of illegal immigration may have been a political flashpoint in the recent Florida primaries, but a new study suggests that fewer undocumented immigrants call the state home.
The analysis by Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, D.C., found that more illegal immigrants have been leaving Florida than have moved in during the past few years. A small percentage have become legalized.
The population of immigrants living illegally in Florida dropped by an estimated 375,000 as the economic downturn worsened from 2007 to 2009, the study said. There were an estimated 675,000 undocumented immigrants in the state in 2009, down from more than a million in 2008.
As such, Florida has the highest decrease in illegal immigration in the country. The population for those who either crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas dropped nationwide from an estimated peak of 12 million in 2007 to about 11.1 million in 2009.
The drop coincides with the recent economic downturn as well as increased immigration enforcement and a loud debate about more-restrictive immigration bills.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Good news on the illegal aliens front.
They still seem to be everywhere in Jacksonville.
Not true. I see just as many in Wal-MART every day as ever. I refer to it as Little Mexico...........
The ones that stay are having ‘legal babies’ and mooching off our social services. They all need to be made to leave.
My wife and I came from Callahan/Hilliard. I went to Ribault High School.................
Illegals from Haiti but mostly the zone of mexico. dirty little secret is most Latins dont like them nor trust them.
It was reported purely to make you believe that the Obama administration is passively solving the problem of illegal aliens.
It is but another big lie that told loud enough and long enough will become accepted fact.
Our enemy the Obama government is devious and deceitful
It is a liberal trick to soften the illegal issue for the election. Wait til the media goes in to overdrive after labor day. You ain’t seen nothin yet.
675,000 illegals are 675,001 too many.
Get the hell out of my Country and go home!
I agree
The problem really was out of hand.
actual business card slipped onto car windows at the local Home Depot
and Orlando, West Palm Beach, Lake City, Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, Pensacola, Ft Myers, Tallahassee, Gainsville, Ocala, Daytona Beach, Vero Beach, Stewart, Ft Pierce, Naples, Tampa, Clearwater, Palm Bay, Miami, etc. Not to get started on Georgia
I call BS.
They are still all over the place.
This is liberal spin in advance of the elections. They are seeding the “battlefield” and will CONTINUE to produce “happy news” so that it will demotivate the tsunami of anti-rat voters.
DO NOT believe this!
” I refer to it as Little Mexico...........”
Funny—I refer to ours as the meximart.
Propaganda by the Pew Hispanic Center.
I have to wonder just how they ‘estimate’ the numbers! I don’t trust them, not one bit. Just like the unemployment numbers that I am convinced are pure fantasy, the numbers released chosen to back the spin of those who provide them.
IMHO, any numbers coming from a group that has a vested interest in seeing the numbers back their side are suspect.
Get real inflorida.
Try getting out of the mickey mouse land that is Orlando.
Go for a drive through LaBelle, Pahoke, South Bay, Belle Glades, Indiantown or any of a hundred other little forgettable towns in south florida.
The majority of folks in each is majority illegals. Ice, NEVER goes to any of them. A protected class as they work for big sugar (the Fanjuls) big citrus or the construction industrry.
This is a horse pooh story preffered by the libs trying to get ya to think we have no illegals problem.
More propaganda to pave the way for amnesty. The message is that illegal immigration is no longer a problem. It is under control. The reality is that no one knows how many illegals are here.
You are right. They are just trying to convince people that the border is secure..but it isn’t.
So they think they know how many there are, but have done nothing about it, these folks don’t know anything, they are like Charles Manson, making the rules up for credibility as they need..
I think most folks understand we are in a state of seige..
you don't seriously think they went back to the third world do you?
All the older, small to mid-sized industrial cities in the Northeast have been gutted of native population and swelled with illegal immigrants. If that’s the case, you know that change is nationwide and way more than the long quoted ‘12 million’ that Pew and others now are laughably trying to shrink further still to 8 to 10 million. Most Americans, I believe, will not be fooled.
This makes it all the easier to take away the welcome mat and lock the doors.
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