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Immigrant Population Continues Decline

By Kleinheider Posted on December 31, 2008 at 1:37 pm

More evidence from the Davidson County Sheriff:

The sheriff’s department doesn’t know exactly what is causing the decrease, but local immigration experts, like attorney Sean Lewis, have their theories.

“I feel, because I can only guess, that it’s the economy,” said Lewis.

There are fewer immigrants in Nashville because they’re leaving since they can’t find work, said Lewis.

“I had a case today where they came in, and they normally do 15 houses a year at a construction company, and he came in today and said, ‘In the past year, we did three houses,’” said Lewis.

Since April 2007, when the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department started a partnership with federal authorities, they’ve begun removal proceedings against 4,500 people.

“These people are being removed from our community, and even if they do come back to the United States, we hope that they won’t come back here,” said Weikel.

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4 Responses to “Immigrant Population Continues Decline”

  1. benintn writes
    December 31st, 2008 3:27 pm

    kinda undercuts the Crispy-Crafton argument

  2. HillbillyBill writes
    December 31st, 2008 3:46 pm

    It’s a no brainer. If the immigrants are seeking better jobs in the U.S. than where they come from and our economy is in the dumps and we are experiencing record layoffs and permanent business closings with permanent job losses, who would want to leave whatever job they have to come to a place where jobs are slim to none and getting scarcer?

  3. Donna Locke writes
    December 31st, 2008 8:34 pm

    Don’t get too excited. Your goose is already cooked, given the numbers already here and the unwillingness of our government to change its immigration policies.

  4. Donna Locke writes
    December 31st, 2008 8:40 pm

    And U.S. import of foreign workers continues, even in this economy — 140,000 or more this month alone.

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