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Reversing course for survival

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Pichardo said he is not likely to make the dangerous journey to cross the Texas-Mexico border since he has restarted his life in his home state of Guanajuato. He returned home in September 2007 after an arrest on immigration charges, and now can’t afford the expensive smuggling fees to cross the border. He’s also heard work is increasingly scarce.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6348003.html

By James Pinkerton -- Houston Chronicle

Group Estimates 100 illegal immigrants leaving every day

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"Illegal immigrants are starting to leave Arizona months in advance of a new state law that will require employers to verify the employment eligibility of their workers. ... "I would say we are losing at least 100 people a day," said Elias Bermudez, founder of Immigrants Without Borders and host of a daily talk-radio program aimed at illegal immigrants."http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/61804.php

By Daniel Gonzalez -- The Arizona Republic

Illegal Immigrants Moving Out

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Illegal immigrants living in states and cities that have adopted strict immigration policies are packing up and moving back to their home countries or to neighboring states.

"People now are really frightened and scared because they don't know what's going to happen," says Juliana Stout, an editor at the newspaper El Nacional de Oklahoma. "They're selling houses. They're leaving the country."http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-26-moving_N.htm

By Emily Bazar -- USA Today

Crackdown has illegals leaving Arizona

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"Congress' failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform, immigration crackdowns, Arizona's new employer-sanctions law and a sluggish economy have combined to create a climate families such as the Francos no longer find hospitable.

The number returning to Mexico is difficult to calculate, but there is no question that many families are leaving, according to Mexican government officials, local community leaders and immigrants themselves.

A Hispanic Population in Decline; Illegal Immigrant Policy Alters Pr. William on Many Levels

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"At least there is one thing both sides agree on: Hispanic immigrants are leaving Prince William. Whether their departure has improved the county's quality of life or pushed its strained economy further downward is the new topic of contention driven largely by views of whether the presence of immigrants was a good thing in the first place.

Why More Illegal Aliens Self-Deport

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"The illegal migrant population has dropped an estimated 11 percent through May after hitting a peak last August, based on census data used in a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Much of that decline is due to people who self-deported by slipping back across the border.

The drop began well before unemployment went up, which points to the real success story: Washington's wake-up call last summer to beef up enforcement, from plugging leaks in the border to cracking down on employers who hire illegal workers."

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