8/30/2007: Security News Brief: Arizona Law Chasing Illegals Out of
the State: Oklahoma Has Same Result:

A new Arizona state law to require employers to verify the immigration
status of employees is being blamed - and credited - for chasing
illegal aliens out of the state.

It's the second such development in just the last week: A new Oklahoma
law requiring the deportation of arrested illegal aliens was prompting
an exodus from that state.

The developments are the result of state actions already launched when
a broken plan in the US Senate to create a path to legal residency for
the millions of illegal aliens in the country collapsed.

The new report comes from the Arizona Republic, which said the state's
strong economy has been a magnet for illegal aliens for years, but the
law is looming on Jan. 1.

"I would say we are losing at least 100 people a day," Elias Bermudez,
founder of Immigrants Without Borders and host of a daily talk-radio
program aimed at undocumented immigrants, told the newspaper.