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most of this is anecdotal information we re getting. many news organizations have gone to mexico many times in recent months and spoken to illegals and, yes, some say they will be leaving the state because of s.b. 1070, and it s true there are latino-owned businesses shutting down, but it s impossible to tell if that s because of the law or because the economy has been a shambles, now, for the past couple of years. here s what the government says. the government says as of now there are some 460,000 illegal immigrants in arizona, and they say that over the past couple of years 100,000 of those illegals have left. there were 560,000, they say, two years ago. 100,000 have fled because of a new law a couple of years ago that made employers responsible to know the immigration status of their employees. experts now say they do believe there will be illegal immigrants who leave arizona and go to