Even Illegal Immigrants Don't Want to Live In California Anymore

Katherine Mangu-Ward | June 22, 2009

You know that your state is in trouble when even illegal immigrants have stopped moving there.

Since 2006, illegal immigration to the United States seems to be leveling off, after a huge spike in the 1990s and early '00s. These days, we're holding steady at a crop-pickin', lawn-mowin', dish-washin' 11.9 million.

The immigrants who do come, according to today's Pew Daily Number, have been shifting to states other than the traditional California option. Since the state is in a spending binge, population bleed, and general downward spiral, you have to give the illegals credit for being forward looking.

More on illegal/undocumented/unauthorized/differently papered immigrants here.