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the state's most serious problems such as traffic congestion and the expense of teaching English Language Learner classes are dissipating.
Commuters are reporting fewer vehicles on the freeways, shortening their rush-hour commutes.
English Learner Language (ELL) students started dropping out of school. This helped end a confrontation between the state legislature and a liberal federal judge who had ordered the state to spend more money on ELL classes.
Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital emergency rooms, so waiting times have decreased. Although the rest of the country is in an economic slump, unemployment is going down in Arizona, from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in March
Day laborers loitering outside of Home Depot and other stores have mostly disappeared,
No one showed up on May 1 to march in immigrant rallies.
Although Arizona's Democrat Governor Janet Napolitano has vetoed most illegal immigration bills since 2002 when she entered office, Arizonans have bypassed her by sending initiatives directly to the ballot