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a commentary that “Business is taking advantage of the lack of immigration law enforcement to hire cheap, illegal labor to be more competitive with other countries' low wages.” Hull describes the demographic trend in California, where the population has doubled in 40 years, and virtually all of the state's growth is currently due to immigration and births to foreign-born women, and she highlights analysis by Bear Sterns researchers who found that, "The best guess as to the size of the output of this shadow economy [illegal aliens working off the books] is about $970 billion," an amount which, if taxed, could eliminate the current budget deficit and return us to the land of milk and honey, more commonly known in economics as "surplus.".
the growing number of cases in which smugglers force illegal aliens into prostitution and other forms of forced labor. Currently two operations are underway in California according to an AP report online at sfgate.com. One operation was focused on Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Anaheim and other Southern California cities while a second one was underway in San Francisco. The targets apparently included massage parlors.
housing occupied by Mexican day laborers. In two eviction actions, more than two dozens Mexicans have been put on the street and other landlords have apparently gotten the message and started to similarly take action to come into compliance with the housing code. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is quoted in the account in Newsday, “The point of the first raid was to send a strong message to the slumlords. Apparently it's worked.” 
practiced by DHS/ICE’s detention and removal personnel in deciding whom to hold and whom to release. The focus is on the San Diego region, one of the nation’s busiest. The report notes that the average length of detention nationwide last year was 89 days, but that is being cut to about a third of that time by a new expedited removal process that allows removal without a hearing before an immigration judge. Still, that will not eliminate the bureaucratic requirement of getting documentation and approval for the removal from the aliens’ consular officials
says he has volunteers lined up from around the country for his similar project in New Mexico. According to the Washington Times, Wright says that, “Our goal is not to control the border, but to bring pressure on the government to properly secure it….I would hope the two governments will take notice of our efforts and try to do something that will permanently resolve this chaos.”
