The U.S. Border Patrol announced yesterday that in just the last six months apprehensions at the Mexican border had dropped 17 percent to 347,000. Shockingly, The Department of Homeland Security’s border patrol was not instantly credited for its brilliance in cracking down on illegal immigration.

Instead, the Wall Street Journal’s Miriam Jordan reports that less people are crossing the border because the U.S. economy stinks. Some credit is given to DHS security and surveillance. But even more is attributed to a new Arizona state law that harshly punishes businesses who hire undocumented immigrants. Read Jordan here. MB

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