Marcos Arevalo, who supervises the Corvallis DMV office, estimates traffic is down 40 percent from last year. Half, if not most, of the customers who once packed the branch were Latino, he said.
"I don't know where they went," Arevalo said.
You can understand why this might be a hard thing for Oregon bureaucrats to wrap their heads around. After years of handing out identification to anything that got through the door, they've become accultured to that sort of thing. Now that folks have to prove that they're here legally, why, dang. Most of the latinos have gone away. If this sort of thing keeps up, DMV may find that they're able to save some cash by just printing things in English.
Of course, The Oregoniancan't be bothered to report facts; they continue to insist upon presenting opinion in the guise of "news". And they wonder why they're losing subscriptions and advertisers.
Estimates of the undocumented population in Oregon range from 120,000 to 175,000. It's not clear whether they're moving out, driving without a license or riding with licensed drivers, said Aeryca Steinbauer of the immigrant rights group, Causa.
Let's get a few things straight: they aren't "undocumented" - they're illegal aliens. CAUSA isn't an "immigrant rights group" - they're advocates of illegal invasion.
The Big Zero simply cannot bring themselves to print truth rather than propaganda. And most people recognize that fact. It's why The Zero bleeds subscribers at double the national average. This results in fewer ad buys, because the eyeballs aren't there. They're so "politically correct" that they really don't understand why their paper's going under.
