NO AMNESTY IN ARIZONA

Arizona is seeing signs of a flight by illegal immigrants out of the state and back across the border. Local reformers credit the state's recent crackdown on employers - Consider:

• The new state law punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants by suspending their business license for 10 days on the first violation and revoking it for a second offense.
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection has given arrest authority to many deputies; so in the course of a traffic stop, illegal aliens without driver's licenses for the first time now stand a real chance of being deported.

In response to the crackdown, illegals are flooding the Mexican consulate in Phoenix:

• The consulate is reporting an "unusual" 400 percent increase in parents applying for Mexican birth certificates for their anchor babies and other documents they need to return to Mexico.
• Overall, some 30,000 illegal immigrants plan to leave Arizona as the state's tough new immigration laws kick in, according to a survey conducted earlier this month by Chicanos Por La Causa.

Arizona is a model for other states: by sending a clear message to immigrants living here illegally that they're serious about enforcing the law, they're packing up and leaving themselves.

[as has repeatedly been shown to be the case - the same better-deal thinking that brought them here will lead to their 'immigration' - south]

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