This line got a huge chuckle when Mitt Romney made it in one of the thousand GOP debates……basically it means that an illegal immigrant would voluntarily go back across the border to their home….but Mitt’s idea was that they would do this because of laws that would make it more difficult for them to find work….so without the glamor of picking lettuce they would not feel that they could find employment and that home would be a better place to be……

It seems that Mitt may have been onto something with his idea of self-deportation…..not that his idea was so scary that the illegals immediately started running for the border…….but instead the economy is the culprit……..the economy has done what so many millions of dollars could not…….Let us see how many Americans jump on those low paying picking lettuce jobs…..

From the WaPo…….

A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans now leave the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

It is the first reversal in the trend since the Depression, and experts say that a declining Mexican birthrate and other factors may make it permanent.

“I think the massive boom in Mexican immigration is over and I don’t think it will ever return to the numbers we saw in the 1990s and 2000s,” said Douglas Massey, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project, which has been gathering data on the subject for 30 years.

So all those darn pesky immigrants are now returning home…..it seems that they would rather be in dangerous Juarez with a job than in the US without one…..but beyond that….if this trend holds who will the neocons  choose to demagogue if they do not have the Hispanics to pick on anymore?