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NBC Reporter Discovers New Immigration Law Causing Illegals to Leave Arizona

NBC's Lee Cowan, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, discovered a stunning result of Arizona's new immigration policies - illegal immigrants are now leaving the state. Cowan opened his piece noting a long line now "stretches around the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix every day" but noticed a twist, as the line was full of "immigrants trying to figure out not how to stay in Arizona, but how to flee it."

Cowan peppered his story with anecdotes of local businesses losing customers "A look around this once-bustling barrio is telling. The local hair salon has more empty chairs now than customers" and schools losing students as he claimed "School numbers are dwindling, too. This one is 75 percent Hispanic. Since the immigration law passed, they've lost more than 100 students." Cowan even punctuated this factoid with the sob story of a boy being taken out of school by his father to go back to Mexico:

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LEE COWAN: For the Bolanos family, they stayed as long as they could.

MARCIAL BOLANOS, ARIZONA RESIDENT: Arizona is a good state, but no more now.

COWAN: He took his 15-year-old son out of school and is headed back to Mexico, which brings Hugo to tears. But you're really going to miss your friends?

HUGO BOLANOS: Yeah.

While Cowan did air a soundbite of a Republican state senator who pointed out that it was "kind of a novel idea" that people were "actually worried they may be arrested for breaking the law" he concluded his piece by emphasizing the economic cost of Arizona's new immigration policy: "It may be months before anyone knows for sure just how many illegal immigrants and their business the law has scared away. Supporters say good riddance, but critics fear the damage has already started."

The following is a transcript of the Cowan segment as it was aired on the July 8 edition of NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams:

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Now we turn to Arizona, where the federal government is challenging the state's tough new immigration law. Arizona's governor set up a fund to defend the law. As of today, 9,000 people, mostly from out of state, have contributed a half a million dollars to the effort. Some of those targeted by the new law are not waiting for it to take effect later this summer. They're leaving the state now. NBC's Lee Cowan has our report.

LEE COWAN: One way to measure the effect of Arizona's pending immigration law is the length of this line. It stretches around the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix every day, immigrants trying to figure out not how to stay in Arizona, but how to flee it.

LUIS BALENCEA, ARIZONA RESIDENT: There's a lot of people already leaving for New Mexico, leaving something else, you know.

COWAN: Anywhere but here.

BALENCEA: Anywhere, yeah. Nobody want to stay here.

COWAN: A look around this once-bustling barrio is telling. The local hair salon has more empty chairs now than customers. The owner is even losing two employees.

ROSANA QUINTERO, SALON OWNER: People look very sad. And we feel sad, too.

COWAN: The café next door is even emptier.

MARIA SIERRA, BUSINESS OWNER: I ask the people, and they say they afraid to come out.

COWAN: School numbers are dwindling, too. This one is 75 percent Hispanic. Since the immigration law passed, they've lost more than 100 students.

JEFF SMITH, BALSZ SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT: This is sort of the tip of the iceberg. More are waiting until the law goes into effect, and then we'll see more people leaving during the summer.

COWAN: To the authors of Arizona's tough new immigration stance, if there is a mass exodus of illegal immigrants, so be it.

REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR RUSSELL PEARCE: Kind of a novel idea, you know, people actually worried they may be arrested for breaking the law.

COWAN: The problem is there really are no hard numbers on the issue. So the question critics are asking: Is this exodus a myth or a fact?

BILL HART, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: We think it's fact. We don't exactly know what's happening, but we know something's happening on a large scale.

COWAN: For the Bolanos family, they stayed as long as they could.

MARCIAL BOLANOS, ARIZONA RESIDENT: Arizona is a good state, but no more now.

COWAN: He took his 15-year-old son out of school and is headed back to Mexico, which brings Hugo to tears. But you're really going to miss your friends?

HUGO BOLANOS: Yeah.

COWAN: And your school?

(Hugo nods head)

COWAN: It may be months before anyone knows for sure just how many illegal immigrants and their business the law has scared away. Supporters say good riddance, but critics fear the damage has already started. Lee Cowan, NBC News, Phoenix.


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They will loose some businesses especially the ones illegals frequented but at the end of the day the counties and state will save money. With the decreased enrollment alone will save money. I am sure the hospitals are seeing less of them as well which also saves money. At the end of the day I would like to see how much the state is saving on education, healthcare and the social services they use. I bet it will be substantial.

Originally Posted by swatchick

At the end of the day I would like to see how much the state is saving on education, healthcare and the social services they use. I bet it will be substantial.

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Running off thieves before they strip the shelves bare is far better than not running them off at all.

Consider this: The average illegal alien female rears at least four offspring. Each of those anchor babies IMMEDIATELY gets a social security number.

Are you getting the picture?

BoooooooooHooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Illegal alien females, rearing anchor babies supported by U.S. taxpayers ,are rapidly changing the demographic of the United States. Illegals awaiting the birth of a U.S. born child should be reported and deported.

LEE COWAN: One way to measure the effect of Arizona's pending immigration law is the length of this line. It stretches around the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix every day, immigrants trying to figure out not how to stay in Arizona, but how to flee it.

Hey idiot Globalist propagandist, immigrants permanently settle in one place, those people leaving are illegal aliens!!!

This is why Obama hates the law, it shows attrition through enforcement works!!!

Originally Posted by Bowman

LEE COWAN: One way to measure the effect of Arizona's pending immigration law is the length of this line. It stretches around the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix every day, immigrants trying to figure out not how to stay in Arizona, but how to flee it.

Hey idiot Globalist propagandist, immigrants permanently settle in one place, those people leaving are illegal aliens!!!

This is why Obama hates the law, it shows attrition through enforcement works!!!

The Republican Cheap Labor Scum hate the AZ LAWS (remember their e-verify & lose your license for being an enabler law) just as much if not more than obama. These traitors fronted up Senator mcamnesty for years in order to keep the pipeline of cheap labor flowing. The real battle line here is between the republican establishment crowd and their elitist socialist allies in the democrat party vs. the rest of us who at least agree on wanting to see the nation prosper and everyone have a level playing field to compete on.

Amazing how the same republican business owner who complains about china dumping goods on the market below cost doesn't believe in truly "free markets" then but when mexico is dumping below cost labor on the United States working class they cannot stop talking about how great the "free market" is and how beneficial it is.

The true cost of labor is the sum of obamacare, education, and the basic necessities. What does that add up to for an immigrant or for a family of four for example. Any employer not paying more than the first figure is having their labor subsidized by someone else. Crony capitalism is ruining the economy of this country. It promotes inefficient business practices and ultimately pushes capital offshore where it can be better utilized. I will be damned if I am going to invest my money in good equipment to manufacture with when my competitor down the road can undercut my cost structure by simply using illegal labor that is subsidized by you the taxpayer.

Now let's clean this problem up so we can start investing in this country again and put some Americans back to work.

Originally Posted by SovereignMan

Originally Posted by Bowman

The Republican Cheap Labor Scum hate the AZ LAWS (remember their e-verify & lose your license for being an enabler law) just as much if not more than obama. These traitors fronted up Senator mcamnesty for years in order to keep the pipeline of cheap labor flowing. The real battle line here is between the republican establishment crowd and their elitist socialist allies in the democrat party vs. the rest of us who at least agree on wanting to see the nation prosper and everyone have a level playing field to compete on.


Now let's clean this problem up so we can start investing in this country again and put some Americans back to work.

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So very true. The GOP coulda - shoulda - DIDN'T!

COWAN: School numbers are dwindling, too. This one is 75 percent Hispanic. Since the immigration law passed, they've lost more than 100 students.

75%.....that is unreal. This is what all the states have to look forward to if we don't do some thing now.