Good news on immigration
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Saturday, July 9, 2011 - Updated 53 minutes ago

For once some good news: Illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico effectively has stopped. Looking back, it seems clear that headlines about warfare among drug gangs distracted Americans from hopeful developments in Mexico.

This ought to make a realistic reform of U.S. immigration laws much easier.

In a major report on Mexican immigration, The New York Times [NYT] quoted Douglas Massey, director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton University, as saying his research showed that “No one wants to hear itâ€