The New Media Journal | Illegals Leaving Arizona at an Enormous Rate

The New Media Journal | Illegals Leaving Arizona at an Enormous Rate: "Hondurans are fleeing Arizona by the thousands. Honduran Ministry authorities believe this phenomenon is caused by the implementation of Arizona's new b order security law, SB1070, scheduled in force on 25 July.

Undocumented Hondurans are seeking refuge in the neighboring states of California and Texas, although most prefer California.

California is preferred because some Texas counties are seeking to implement similar laws, while California is boycotting certain trade and economic activities with Arizona in protest against SB 1070...

Most of these people have left Arizona in recent days as SB 1070 is scheduled to go into effect on July 25, empowering local police and municipal authorities to require any person detained for other violations of the law, who is suspected of being an undocumented immigrant, to present identification.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer further clarified the caveat to immigrant status examination in that, according to an amendment to SB 1070, to request immigration documentation, a person must have committed a violation of other national or local law.

SB 1070 was adopted on April 25th and is scheduled to go into full force on July 25th (the Obama Administration has filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona in an effort to stop the implementation of this legislation).

Around 600 thousand immigrants from Latin roots reside in Arizona, according to the Vice-Mayor of the city, Nowakowski Michel, who himself is an immigrant from Mexico of Polish origin.

Not only Hondurans are fleeing Arizona. 'We have official reports that reveal that some 250 thousand undocumented immigrants have emerged from the state in recent months,' said Alden Rivera, a TPS vice-chancellor.