NYTIMES: TOUGHER ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT STANCE WORKING

NYTIMES:

... the numbers of immigrants who said they were considering going back to live in their home countries increased notably.

Among immigrants who have been here less than five years, 49 percent said they were thinking of returning home, while only 41 percent said they planned to remain in the United States.

Over all, just under one-third of the immigrants said they were thinking of leaving this country. In 2001, the last time a similar survey asked a comparable question, about 20 percent of all the immigrants interviewed said they were thinking of going home.

THEN THERE'S THIS:

More than three million Latin American immigrants in the United States, responding to the economic downturn and new uncertainties about their future, have stopped sending money home to their families in the last two years, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.

Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years ago, the survey found.

• THEY ARE GETTING THE MESSAGE!
• I WISH THE POLITICANS WOULD!
• LET THE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO WANT TO STAY REMAIN HERE.
• THE ILLEGAL ONES SHOULD GO HOME.