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Why the reverse Brazilian immigration? Cape Whale?

Brazilians are leaving Massachusetts
Much needed service help is leaving due to economy here
"I'm going back sometime in the next two months. I can see the situation here in America is pretty bad. The economy is in free fall and I can't see a way it will get better in the next five years." - Eduardo  Filho
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - August 13, 2007 - In the midst of the debate about immigrants coming to America, something unusual is happening in Massachusetts: Brazilian immigrants are quietly packing up and leaving.

The falling dollar has made it less attractive for them to work in the United States, and tightened immigration laws are making it uncomfortable to stay.

The departures are already having an effect on the labor supply and on businesses in some immigrant neighborhoods in the city and the suburbs. W-B-U-R's Bianca Vazquez Toness reports...There are already a handful of empty stores in downtown Framingham abandoned by Brazilian businesses. But there is one new shop just opening up. Problem is it's is a shipping company. A shipping company that helps people send their belongings back to Brazil...  Read and lisen on WBUR here.  Listen to story (Real Audio)

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Sacred Cod
And we may soon be called Cape Whale

The Sacred Cod is a carving of a codfish that hangs in the chamber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It represents the importance of the fishing industry in the early history of the state. Cod are very abundant in the waters surrounding Massachusetts, and in 1974 it was chosen as the official state fish.  The Sacred Cod sculpture measures five feet long and is carved out of pine. The much-revered Sacred Cod hanging in the Massachusetts State House needs to share the limelight with two other species that are equally worthy of being honored -- the right whale and the sperm whale. These two mighty leviathans of the deep were just as important to the state's growth and development as the puny cod.

The whales distinguished themselves early on... As soon as the weary Pilgrims dropped anchor in Provincetown Harbor, whales surrounded the ship...  Indeed, there were so many whales that Cape Cod could have just as easily been called Cape Whale... Globe.