Monday, February 4, 2008

Laws aimed at hiring illegal workers drive many to Texas

Illegal immigrants are flowing into Texas across its long borders. But they aren't just swimming across the Rio Grande from Mexico or making dangerous treks through the rugged desert. Instead, a new rush of illegal immigrants are driving down Interstate 35 from Oklahoma or heading east to Texas from Arizona to flee tough new anti-illegal immigrant laws in those and other states.

''It's a wave that's happening across the United States, ... There is a migration, within the United States, to the states and cities more receptive [?] to the reality of the undocumented immigrant."
The effect of the new law can be seen in the many signs advertising rental property vacated by departing immigrants, said David Castillo, the executive director of the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

[What? illegals self-deporting (albeit still within the US) when the incentives are removed, and without the government having to "forcibly round up millions"? Who'd have thunk it.]

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