Fewer Border Crossings Show Troubled Economy
March 25, 2008
An Arizona State University research economist says she could see rocky times ahead for Arizona’s economy a year before the real problems emerged.Dawn McLaren with the W.P. Carey School of Business said a slowdown in border apprehensions of illegal immigrants tipped her off.“When the work starts to dry up, then they don’t come,” McLaren said. “And this happened long before our slowdown. It gives us about a year’s heads-up on the turnaround.”
McLaren said illegal immigrants are highly networked.
“The one who has a job here will call home to his hometown and say, `Hey, we need more people on our construction crew, we need more people doing this type of work or that type of work.”
McLaren said as soon as more illegal immigrants start trying to cross the border, “I’ll feel better. I’ll say, `Well, here comes the upturn in the economy.’”
Authorities credit the drop in illegal border crossings to stepped up enforcement and tough employer sanctions against hiring illegal immigrants.
McLaren said Arizona may have a tougher time digging its way out of the current economic slup than it did in the 1980s.
“We had Motorola and we had Intel, we had the semi-conductor industry then that we could say, `This will pull us out of it,’” she said. “We also had affordable housing, we were really an affordable place to live.”
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“BORDER SECURITY” ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, IMMIGRATION REFORM ACT OF 2007″
No 4.4 billion dollar IMMIGRATION SECURITY ACCOUNT.
No End to Indian Soverienty
A direct attack on all PROTECTED LAND
No Removal of Jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture to the “Secretary”
No “National Strategy for BORDER SECURITY”
No High Impact Area Grant Money from that 4.4 billion Immigration Sec. Account
No Construction and “Acquisition of Detention Facilities”
No Base Closures
No “Commission” United States Mexico Border Enforcement Review Comm.
No 20,000 Full Time “Agents” on the Border
No “Northern Border Prosecution Reimbursement Act” (Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Mi
No Executive Office for Immigration Review & Detention
No Department Office of Detention & Oversight
No 4500 EEVS Agents under the Secretary of Homeland Security
But we got EEVS but with Sanctions
No Real ID, but we have EEVS
No Taxpayer assistance in Immigration Enforcement, business & personalike
No Temporary Work Program, because we didn’t give out a “Z” card attached to EEVS attached to Social Security Private Equity Accounts. 11.5 million at that.
No “Sunset of Y-1 or y-2 Non immigrant Visas
No “State Impact Fees of 500.00 for adults, and 250.00 for dependents
No Temporary Workers Program Account with 5,000,000 in it.
And most of all no “Audit of Attestations”
Well that would be what Sheriff Joe is attempting to compile instead of going after criminals that have committed a crime. Just Brown People in hopes that one day, someone will pass that “MARSHALL LAW IMMIGRATION” plan and fill the coffers up with SOME MONEY.
The master plan that failed, and without it, everyone is just p’oed and going broke!
So where are all those unemployed Americans that will do the jobs immigrants did, do, done, and are not doing today State Legislatures.
Janet Napolitano told you but, you pushed, and pushed in the night and it wasn’t even “April fools day” iT WAS YOUR DAY. Good shot. Welcome to the Dust Bowl again in the SUDAN.
lol, Roger. Your rantings are funny. Go back to banging your illegal wife and stay off the computer.
Ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha, Bob got’s jokes! I know it’s tough waking up at 3am and you can’t beg long enough for a little reality in your day! It’s tough I know Bob, but there are a lot of clinics in the valley, and for $50.00 you can lean back and take a load off your mind. Get some help, get some spiritual help. Stop buying sheets and cutting holes in it because you think you can, thinking now is the time. $50.00 to get a clue isn’t all that bad. It will help with those long nights after doing the Ho Chi Minh trail through the halls of your house hunting for love in all the wrong places. Let the Larry Craig go home, his family misses him, save the tap tap lessons for prison.
The only thing illegal in america is sick men Bob. So spend the money and get the help you need at this breaking point in your life, It’s okay Bob.
Hey how about a BEER TAX Bob!