'Millions' sneaking over US border

The Australian ^ | September 13, 2004 | AFP

[yonif]

THREE million people are expected to enter the United States illegally this year, according to a report today.

The number of illegal immigrants, most of whom slip across the long border with Mexico, was three times the number of legal immigrants, Time magazine said.

Border patrols only listed illegal immigrants as being Mexicans or from other nations, without keeping tallies on how many came from third countries, it said.

But the list of other countries included Afghanistan, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq, Nicaragua, Russia and Venezuela.

Border controls have become a key political issue since the September 11, 2001 attacks, with critics fearing that would-be terrorists could illegally enter the country to conduct new strikes.

[yonif]

Countries such as Afghansitan, Egypt, Iran and Iraq? The US shouldn't fear those sneaking in illegally from there /sarcasm

[SheLion]

I watched a documentary on Fox a few months ago.  Fox sent one of their journalist down on the Arizona border.  He interviewed a Border Patrol man and his wife.

They had a trailer right at the fence.  They told Fox that every night, THOUSANDS are coming across the border, and they are NOT all Mexicans.

They have found the books of the Karan and prayer rugs dropped in haste in their front yard on several occasions.

I know a lot of the Muslim's in the United States are decent people, but where are these illegal Muslims going?  SOMEONE has to be waiting for them!

And like all big families, a Mosque might have a "black sheep member."

The Border Patrol and his wife said that they were powerless to stop them.  There is just too many.

[hosepipe]

Democrats are aborting all their future generation. They need the votes.... where is your commpassion... what an icehole

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

The problem is that neither side of the aisle (Republican or Democrat) will deal with this issue.

[Podkayne]

This is why housing prices are rising at ridiculous rates.

[SheLion]

In a single day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the border between Arizona and Mexico. And many will obtain phony identification papers, including bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and mask their unlawful presence. TIME’s Pulitzer Prize winning investigative team, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, takes a look at the damage, the dangers, and the reasons America fails to protect itself as millions of illegal aliens pour across the U.S.-Mexican border this year, many from countries hostile to America.

3 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS TO FLOOD THE U.S. THIS YEAR

[SheLion]

This is why housing prices are rising at ridiculous rates.

Why is that? If these immigrants are Muslim, then they are staying at the Mosque's and their friends scattered across the United States.

[Fast1]

First off is the Border patrol armed?? and second do they have ammunition or carry a bullet in their shirt pocket ala Barney Fife Time to start defending the border ..

[risk]

agreed

[mabelkitty]

Know what would cause a freak-out?
If they set-up a video camera recording the entry from dusk until dawn. Send it to the news stations, and Americans would take notice.

[TomGuy]

Some are issued rubber bullets. Some are issues pepperballs.

[risk]

Alphabet soup has played tapes of that sort of thing on every tabloid weekly/nightly/monthly news magazine. Do we see any real difference yet? The polls lie, of that I'm sure.

[Bobby777]

nothing will be done about the southern border until the next "9/11" occurs and even then I wonder.

this open border has already admitted the next batch of terrorists while they're frisking grandmothers at airports.

sheer stupdity to ignore this gaping hole in our defense.

but Tom Ridge told us to get duct tape and flashlights so when they do strike us again, we can all cower in fear in the basement.

[Mr. Mojo]

We have our cheap lettuce and the pols (on both sides of the aisle) pay off their debts to corporatate campaign donors.

Oh, but there's a slight downside to all this: social servies to illegals are sucking the U.S. taxpayer dry, our prisons are overflowing (illegals commit crimes in disproportionate numbers), tens of millions of people now residing in the U.S. have no loyalty whatsoever to their host country and have no intention of adopting our language/culture, and.......oh yeah, Islamists/terrorists whose sole purpose for being is to destroy our nation are now here in large numbers.

[EggsAckley]

Your idea is a good one. And a simple one, at that. Surprising that the Patrol officer and his wife haven't done just that. Assuming, that is, that it matters to them. Sounds like maybe it doesn't.

[SheLion]

Know what would cause a freak-out?
If they set-up a video camera recording the entry from dusk until dawn. Send it to the news stations, and Americans would take notice.

Well, this documentary?  Fox and the couple used night lights and did film them.  Fox showed the immigrants flooding the border coming into the U.S.  I saw it myself.  The Border Patrol and his wife said this goes on night after night.

I wish everyone had watched this show.  It was an 'eye opener.'

[SheLion]

Some are issued rubber bullets. Some are issues pepperballs.

However, the Border Patrol is only spaced every half mile or mile in between.  It's not like an Army laying on their belly's with a good aim.

One Border Patrol guy, armed or not, is only one man.  If thousands are coming across the border every night, I, too, would just let them go.  How many could one man shoot?

[SheLion]

Oh, but there's a slight downside to all this: social servies to illegals are sucking the U.S. taxpayer dry, our prisons are overflowing (illegals commit crimes in disproportionate numbers), tens of millions of people now residing in the U.S. have no loyalty whatsoever to their host country and have no intention of adopting our language/culture, and.......oh yeah, Islamists/terrorists whose sole purpose for being is to destroy our nation are now here in large numbers.

Now that you mention it:  another news show (on Fox, and Fox only played it once), was interviewing the Governor of Michigan.

He said that the women from the ME were flying over to Detroit when they were due to have a baby.  They would stay with family in Detroit until their due date then go to the Detroit hospital, deliver their baby, and in a week or so, fly back home.  All at the expense of the taxpayers.

The Governor was ask:  what can be done about it?  The Governor was at a loss.  He said he had no idea.

So, if anyone lives in Detroit, call your lawmakers and ask how this can be STOPPED!

[SheLion]

Your idea is a good one. And a simple one, at that. Surprising that the Patrol officer and his wife haven't done just that. Assuming, that is, that it matters to them. Sounds like maybe it doesn't.

They DID film them.  And Fox filmed them as well.  They put it on TV.  I saw it for myself.  What is that light the Army uses for night time?  It's all green. 

But Fox and this couple DID film the immigrants flooding over the border.

[EGPWS]

THREE million people are expected to enter the United States illegally this year, according to a report today.

Is this a significant increase as to what the rate was before the "Department of Homeland Security" or is it a decrease?

Anyone know?