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February 12, 2008
Arizona's Economy Feels the Effect of Anti-Immigrant Legislation
Like Oklahoma, Arizona is starting to feel the effects of anti-immigrant legislation passed last year. the New York Times reports:
While data for the last month or so are not available, there were already signs of migration out of Arizona at the end of last year. In the fourth quarter of 2007 the apartment-vacancy rate in metropolitan Phoenix rose to 11.2 percent from 9 percent in the same quarter of 2006, with much higher rates of 15 percent or more in heavily Latino neighborhoods.
"You have many people moving out, but they are not all illegal," said Terry Feinberg, president of the Arizona Multihousing Alliance, a trade group for the apartment and rental housing industry. "A lot of people moving are citizens, or legal, but because someone in their family or social network is not, and they are having a hard time keeping or finding a job, they all move."
In the wake of this fallout and continued inaction on immigration reform at the federal level, a group of Arizona legislators have introduced legislation which would create a state-run temporary worker program.
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