Recession, enforcement driving illegal immigrants to leave U.S.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

HARRISONBURG, Va. — For 10 years, Ezequiel Gonzalez and his wife, Lupe, feared that their lives as illegal immigrants in America would be discovered.

One spring evening two years ago, it finally happened. Immigration agents detected Ezequiel working illegally at a local glass company here and ordered him deported to Mexico. Left on her own, Lupe packed up their few belongings and prepared their four children, ages 8 through 15, for the journey to a country they barely knew.

Back in their colonial town in central Mexico, the couple now struggles to support themselves.

"We would like to go back to the United States," said Lupe, 36, by telephone. "But I'm not sure it will ever be possible."

In many places across the country, a demographic shift is underway. Illegal immigrants not only are returning to their homelands in response to more intense government scrutiny, but they're also staying there once they've returned. As word spreads that jobs are harder to come by in the U.S. because of the recession, others are deciding not to come in the first place, slowing an unprecedented flood of immigrants that's lasted more than a decade.

U.S. employers, meanwhile, are hiring fewer undocumented immigrants because they have a bigger pool of unemployed legal workers to choose from and because they fear tighter immigration laws, immigrants and experts say.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/01/93137/recession-enforcement-driving.html#ixzz0mgjwSmaq

[ixion]

1. Okay, teabaggers, all those labor jobs are yours now

... get to work :evilgrin:

[Gman]

2. The MSM just won't talk about if employers wouldn't hire illegals

they wouldn't come. You never see the US Chamber of Commerce out front leading the charge on this issue.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. That's it in a nutshell

Those who employ undocumented workers are to blame. You don't like the current situation, then go after the greedy employers who are encouraging them to come here.