Recession: The Fix for Illegal Immigration - Moderate Voice

May 16, 2009

By Elrod

For all the talk about closing the Mexican border and ramping up enforcement efforts - or even deporting illegals en masse - a greater force has reversed the tide of illegal immigration: recession. This is hardly surprising, but the Mexican government confirms that the number of emigrants from Mexico to the US has plummeted since the beginning of the recession in the US.

They came to America for the jobs. And now that the jobs have disappeared (especially in construction) the immigrants have too.


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