The NY Times may deride “the attrition fantasy,” but reporters at real newspapers inconveniently keep reporting its reality. Today’s case in point comes from across the river in Newark:

The Silver Line firings are part of a growing trend in which employers are purging unauthorized workers to avoid a fledgling immigration crackdown by the U.S. government, according to immigration attorneys and experts. “I think this is the future,” said Cynthia Lange, a San Francisco immigration attorney whose firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Lowey, has offices in New York and Iselin. “Companies are looking internally and they want to be the first ones to look at it before they are like sitting ducks.”