A new report from the Inter-American Development Bank offers yet more evidence that enforcement is starting to lead illegal aliens to rethink their options. The punchline of the report โ€” a survey of 5,000 immigrant adults from Latin America (except Cuba), almost half of them illegal aliens โ€” was that Hispanic immigrants are sending less money home. But some other findings are more interesting โ€” 28 percent of respondents said they were considering returning home and 81 percent said it was harder to find a job. Those numbers, and the drop in remittances, could just be the economy, of course, except that the survey also asked whether they considered โ€œdiscrimination against immigrantsโ€ a major problem, and two-thirds said yes. Since that was almost double the proportion who answered yes in a survey in 2001, itโ€™s pretty clear that the โ€œdiscriminationโ€ theyโ€™re talking about is simply enforcement of the immigration laws, a point reinforced by the fact that illegals were much more likely to point to this โ€œdiscriminationโ€ than naturalized citizens.

Attrition is beginning to work. Faster, please.