Democrats declare recessions racist...

Enforcement is working and the predicted self-deportation is beginning.   But the liberal media can't allow that good news to just sit out there.  

Bush is a genius!

The weaker dollar lets Boeing and Caterpillar have an easier time competing with Airbus & Komatsu, and now the weaker dollar is helping drive the illegals back out of the USA, just in time for the new border wall when Fred Thompson becomes President!

Newsbusters. Log on and find out What the heck is so yummy over here!

"Jesus Cervantes, a top statistician at the country's(Mexico) central bank, told Reuters remittances would probably only grow by about 5 or 6 percent this year and not likely exceed $24.5 billion."

Holy Moly! Imagine if they spent that money in the US.

Have seen several stories on self deportation, most chalk it up to enforcement of the laws, but leave it up to Reuters to not only get the facts wrong, but blame America to boot!

Nowhere mentioned in the article is WHY the difficulty in returning to their home countries. Assuming they entered the U.S. illegally, the process should be nothing more than identifying themselves as here illegally then be deported. Not so fast! Their homes countries do NOT want them back! And they will do everything possible to keep them here. Besides the billions sent back to relatives each year, illegal immigration is the "safety valve" these, mostly, autocratic governments require to avoid civil unrest and even uprisings at home. Short of repeating the arduous and dangerous trek through the desert that got them here, they are stuck. Illegal aliens who now want to go home but can't!

For years I've asked a simple question of those who are for open borders and cite the standard "they pay for themselves and do jobs Americans won't do". "What happens next if these jobs disappear for any reason (i.e. recession)?" We will be finding out "what happens" in the next few years.

Many millions of unmarried, minimally educated (average education of an illegal alien is sixth grade) under 40 year-old males with no income and nowhere to go is a prescription for painful civil unrest; but here, not in their native countries. The most serious right now is the drying up of jobs in new home construction. Jobs that pay well and that Americans WILL do! Construction is an industry where it is quite easy to keep workers off the books. While Fast Food minimum wage jobs are quickly filling up with Hispanic female workers (some fluency in Spanish is now a requirement for management jobs at many McDonalds and other such places of business), the males, used to making $20/hour tax-free in construction are NOT flocking to flip burgers. There are many jobs illegal aliens also will not do!

Their home countries are the ones stopping their return home. The United States only wants to say "good bye!" If the jobs illegal aliens mostly fill continue their free fall, we're poised to have some various serious problems in our society. Even the most ardent "undocumented worker" proponents will be forced to admit they were wrong. Actually, as is the way of all those of the left, they will just change the subject leaving the rest of us to deal with another one of their failed social experiments. The next few years don't look good although the rate of immigrations may begin to fall with well paying jobs no longer waiting for them across the border. That will just leave the most desperate and most uneducated young hispanic males coming through the desert with only a hope of "something" when they reach the "promised land" they've heard others speak of. Just the kind of immigrants we most need! No skills, uneducated and unable to return home.

The next ten years are not going to be pretty.

Long before everybody with a computer keyboard and a pulse appointed themselves as experts on Mexican immigration, I had plenty of direct hands-on involvement in the realities and the economics involved in the topic.

Coincidently, this was also long before the lefties in the MSM decided it would be a smart strategy to stir up a decades-old policy issue in an effort to factionalize some of the not-so-bright folks on the right, all but guaranteeing the Dimocrats a win in 2006 and 2008.

The truth about this so-called "exodus" is that it happens every year in mid-December, only to be follwed by a mass return in mid-January.

Sure, a minority of Mexical illegals stay in the U.S. year-round, but the vast majority (somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4) are truly "migrant" workers who come here for 10-11 months of work, live off a fraction of their pay, sending most of it back home, and then go home to spend the holidays with their families in Mexico before coming back and starting the whole cycle all over again.

Am I surprised that some MSM lefty managed to use enough leading questions to get an ESL interviewee to come up with the allegedly "quoted" response? No, not a bit. But this is what happens when people who know nothing about a topic start pretending to be experts.

Thompson/Giuliani 2008

I think the fact that Arizona has new immigration laws starting in January has a bigger effect on leaving than the economy, but they can't blame Bush for Arizona new laws. But they can blame him for the economy.

Oh, too bad. (please pardon the dripping sarcasm)

Noel,

From AP "Business Writer" Leslie Wines, via Drudge.

"Foreign Buyers Snap Up 2nd Homes In US."

".....The currency advantage is greatest for British citizens, given that each pound is worth well over $2. By contrast, the euro currently is worth about $1.45 while the Canadian dollar in recent weeks is hovering near parity with its U.S. counterpart....."

Oh, the poor Japanese!  Since the yen is "worth" less than one USA penny, they can't afford to buy anything in America!

This kind of reporting is so ignorant, I have no idea what to say.

Does this reporter actually believe that the "normal" rate of exchange for a "strong" dollar is one-for-one with other currencies?