Much is being made of the new Pew Hispanic Center report that net illegal immigration from Mexico has essentially reached zero. See the article on their website.
Am I the only one who finds the timing of their report suspicious, coming as it does while the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, SB 1070?
The Pew report findings sound like just what is needed to argue that Arizona no longer needs SB1070, if in fact it ever did. The timing coincidence seems entirely too convenient. That makes me wonder if the report is accurate or just anti-SB 1070 spin.
Even if the net illegal immigration actually has reached zero, that doesn't answer the question created by the presence of over ten million undocumented immigrants who are already here. Doing a better job of checking right to work status can cause many more to "self-deport" or go home.
