Thread: Immigration decline, Economy is bigger factor than fence

San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial

Immigration decline

Economy is bigger factor than border fence

2:00 a.m. June 6, 2009

When Americans learn that fewer Mexican immigrants are coming to the United States, many assume enhanced border enforcement is paying off. Not so fast. A new study suggests that the lower numbers of migrants have more to do with diminished job opportunities in the United States.

When a team of researchers from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD interviewed more than 1,000 people from a small town in the Mexican state of YucatÃ

That's the reason we need E-Verify and tighter control over employment of illegal aliens. Those who employ illegals must be jailed and fined so heavily, that when the economy does rebound, they will not dare hire illegals!