"Unauthorized immigrants don’t leave the country, even in the face of harsh anti-immigrant laws. Research shows that anti-immigrant laws don’t cause self-deportation. At best immigrants either leave the state for a friendlier one or go deeper underground"

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"Why don’t they “go home”? Because they are home. Two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States for more than 10 years, nearly half are part of families, and across the country nearly 17 million people live with an undocumented person. Laws like S.B. 1070 ignore reality".

Center for American Progress Organization
3 Reasons Why Laws Like Arizona’s S.B. 1070 Don’t Solve Illegal Immigration
State-Level Anti-Immigrant Laws Won’t Fix the Problem
By By Center for American Progress Immigration Team
April 20, 2012


3 Reasons Why Laws Like Arizona’s S.B. 1070 Don’t Solve Illegal Immigration


Some excerpts :

1. Unauthorized immigrants aren’t actually aliens—they look like everyone else. Arizona’s S.B. 1070 compels police to ask for papers from anyone they have a reasonable suspicion of being without status. But how can you tell who has the right papers? Under these laws any person of color, or anyone with a foreign accent, can be required to prove their status, and can be jailed—regardless of whether they are a citizen or an immigrant—until they can do so.

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