Posted on 11/28/2007 5:22:56 PM PST by Delacon
Would-be immigrants may be staying home in significant numbers, a Mexican government survey says, a trend that analysts on Tuesday attributed to a crackdown on illegal border crossers, raids at employment sites and a slowing U.S. economy, particularly in the construction industry.
The third-quarter survey, used to determine the employment rate because many workers are off the tax rolls, showed a 30 percent drop from the third quarter of 2005 in the number of people planning to work abroad or to cross the border.
About 76,000 Mexicans were "looking for a job in another country or preparing to cross the border," according to the survey by the National Institute for Statistics and Geography, or INEGI for its initials in Spanish.
Two years earlier, that number was about 107,500. INEGI pollsters use a formula to make those estimates based on the percentage of Mexicans age 14 and older who said they would seek work abroad. The survey's overall margin of error is plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.
An INEGI spokesman said the government agency is not making any predictions on the topic but is simply reporting its data.
Some pollsters said the government's survey is not designed to predict immigration trends and thus is not trustworthy on the subject.
In the U.S., some groups opposed to illegal immigration said the numbers show that the crackdown is working.
"Wow!" said Roy Beck, executive director of Numbers USA, an immigration restrictionist group. "That is really big. It is a very good time for attrition through enforcement.
"It sounds like the kind of word getting into Mexico is just causing people to change the balance sheet in their mind," he added.
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"Wow!" Said Owl_Eagle "I always thought Numbers USA was just against illegal aliens!"
It’s beginning to work, but we have a LONG, LONG way to go.
Yeah. Right. It’s just about winter than this poll sounds like a con job.
Illegals the Real Scabs
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I keep seeing this and I wonder where the construction industry is slowing. My son is an iron worker here in central Illinois and he works an awful amount of over time. Even in the winter when it's supposed to be slower.
Ya except if we do have a recession illegal immigration proponents will claim this is the reason...
Definitely slowed down in California...
WTH???? ARRGGHGHGHG! Stop making the good guys look like the criminals!!!
“It” so far IS enforcement-lite without a completed wall. And we were told the “real full blown it” (employer enforcement and a wall) would not work. Guess it depends on your definition is “IS” is.
Think I'm kidding??
“Illegals the Real Scabs”
Not to most unions I’ve heard comment on Illegals.
The union that struck Ralphs and Albertson’s groceries in Southern
California a few years ago was solidly pro-illegal immigration
(it was fun to hear REAL unionists try to explain why that was INSANE to
the union spokes-person pimping for illegal immigration).
And teachers’ unions seem to be pro-Illegal through-and-through;
but it makes sense because they are looking for more students to
keep public schools full while the rational folks pull their kids out
for home-schooling.
I'm sure that will change should a dimocrap attain the presidency in '09.
Abroad? Where is "abroad"?
ping
Just heard a report this morning. The vague report stated that the median price of family dwellings had dropped something like 10% in October. One month...
California BTW.
What ever became of all the jobs we sent down there?
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