Yeah, light, Meesa Reega Main! BRAHAHAHAHA! Shuh, you say dat.
Hey, Fleepa Main, Kim go on horiday, so he reeve flend in chawge, ok? Say herro to repracement:
HERR-OH! And no "Hu frung poo" jokes! Seeleeusly!
Posted on 09/27/2005 2:11:07 PM PDT by dennisw
The number of new illegal immigrants to the United States surpassed the number of authorized immigrants from 1999 through at least last year, according to a study based on government statistics that was released today by the Pew Hispanic Center.
The study said that immigration to the United States-- legal and illegal, from all regions of the world-- rose during the 1990s, peaked in 2000 and declined substantially since 2001 as the national economy slowed. The number of new arrivals rose in 2004, as economic conditions improved, the study said.
Although, the arrival of both authorized and unauthorized immigrants declined with the economic downturn, the number of legal immigrants declined more sharply, the study said. Fewer legal immigrants arrived in 2003 and 2004 than in the mid-1990s, the study said, while the number of new illegal immigrants has settled back to about the same level as in the mid-1990s.
More than 34 million immigrants now live in the United States, and make up 12 percent of the nation's population, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year. The number has more than tripled since 1970, when the foreign-born population numbered 9.6 million. In the Washington area, one in six residents was born in another country.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hey Trav!!!
Just because illegal aliens may have to pay a small fine doesn't mean that it can't be considered an amnesty. If we change our immigration laws to accomodate illegal aliens so that they can legally stay in the United States, then they are being rewarded for their lawbreaking. Whether we call it an amnesty or something else, in the end the illegal aliens win because they get what they wanted, and that is to be able to legally live and work in the United States.
Ronald Reagan's amnesty didn't lead to citizenship either. It lead distinctly to green cards. So what exactly is the difference between the Reagan Amnesty and the proposed Bush amnesty? Both mean you are illegal alien, we'll forget you broke our laws to enter the USA, but now we'll make it 100% legal for you to work here
It was under Reagan that Congress passed an unparalleled amnesty for about 3 million immigrants who had been living illegally in the United States for at least five years. There has not been anything like it since.
Those who fit the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act could get green cards at one of the more than 120 storefronts hurriedly set up to handle a flood of applications, followed by citizenship after another five years.
"It was a broad stroke," said William Frey, a population expert at the Brookings Institution, "a practical way of dealing with the question of illegal immigration in this country."
In fact there is a provision for citizenship (if so desired) after 5 years with the Reagan amnesty but not with the GWBush amnesty. But who doubts that any GWBush guest worker will have his citizenship application turned down after he works here 5-8 years?
It is time for the slumbering giant to arise..
Don't forget the Canadian Border and all of our coastlines ~ we have to keep all foreign invaders out!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
States are required to conform to Federal Mandates. Nice try though.
Reagan was more or less blackmailed by Kennedy and Klan to accept the immigration reform act, that was supposed to end the influx of illegal immigration. Do I need to say he felt short changed in that agreement? Rodney King diplomacy does not work with Demoncrats.
Man, I'm startin' to get a little concerned about the swampster. These discussions NEED his constant assertions of "we can't secure 130,000 miles of border" and "illegals add $800 billion to our economy every year" and the charges of racism and xenophobia. The other OBLey-wobleys just don't have his sense of panache!
Question: what's the easiest way to smuggle WMDs into the USA?
Answer: just pay any ten illegal aliens to pack them in a drug shipment.
That makes two of us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts?page=38#38
Impact from illegal alien labor:
- Costing health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement, accruing at $30 billion per year.
- USA is foregoing $35 billion a year in income tax collections because of the number of jobs that are now off the books.
- Census Bureau estimates that 8.7 million people are illegally residing in the USA
- Urban Institute estimates a total of 9.3 million are illegally residing in the USA
- Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a total of 9.2 million are illegally residing in the USA
- The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) stated that the Bureau of Labor could have missed as many as 10% of illegal aliens, since illegal aliens avoid census questionnaires. The CIS suggests the total illegal population is at 10 million or higher (March 2004).
- Employers have incentive to hire undocumented workers off the books.
- Overseas labor markets have forced US employers to find innovative ways to capitalize on sources of cheaper labor to stay competitive.
- Employers place pressure on the government to ignore the flood of cheap labor.
- Services, ie but not limited to: public school enrollment, language proficiency programs, and building permits, that cater to illegal aliens have increased in areas that are considered gateways for immigration.
- The top nine states that account for 50% of illegal aliens are: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
- Sole authority to govern immigration flow is placed on the federal government.
- Responsibility for providing support to legal and illegal immigrants rests with the state and local governments.
- Immigrants send home on average $1,400 to $1,500 per year through money transfers (also called Remittances).
- As per the World Bank in 2002, people sent $133 billion worldwide. Developing countries accounted for $88 billion of that.
- Remittances from the United States to Mexico have tripled to $13 billion between 1995 and 2003.
- As per the Pew Hispanic Center, 39% of surveyed Latino immigrants listed themselves as having legal status to opening bank accounts. This enables cash transfers through private money centers such as Western Union and Money Gram.
- HOWEVER, banks including Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Bank began accepting matriculas, which are photographed identity cards for Mexicans living in the US.
- Matriculas are obtainable by any legal or illegal Mexican. Matriculas are widely obtainable through Mexican consulates across the USA.
- To date, around 2.5 million matriculas have been issued, and the number is growing.
- In major illegal alien gateway cities, the influx of immigrants has led to a housing boom unexplained by official population growth.
- In New Jersey, the three gateway towns are New Brunswick, Elizabeth, and Newark.
- Housing permits in these three towns shot up over six-fold, while the rest of the three counties only saw a three-fold increase.
- 80% of these permits were designated for multiple tenent dwellings.
- Official statistics state that illegal aliens in New Jersey have jumped 110% – an estimate that is inconsistent with the housing statistics. Local realtors' stats for multiple tenent housing and school enrollments suggest the number is higher.
- The major illegal alien gateway cities have experienced school enrollments much higher than projections.
- The decrease in the number of births in the past decade had led education administrators to expect decreasing school enrollments as a post echo boom trend.
- A higher immigration rate, however, has offset the impact of declining births.
- Enrollment stats for major illegal alien gateway city school districts that included: Queens, New York; Elizabeth, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Wake County in North Carolina revealed explosive growth in immigrant students, far beyond numbers consistent with *legal* migration limits.
- NYC public school system is the largest in the nation, enrollment of 1.1 million students.
- Immigrant student enrollment for 1998-2001 was 103,000, with Queens accounting for the largest share, 37,000.
- Between 1990 and 2001, more than half of New York City’s school districts increased their enrollments 10% or more, driven by a high number of immigrant students.
- New York City Public Schools, 1999 to 2001: 102,867 immigrant students: Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Ecuador, Colombia and Haiti.
I'd like to see a nation wide work protest to let politicians and employers know how serious the issue of illegal immigration is ... especially to American workers and their families. I'd support a protest of EVERYONE taking a mid week day off to show that we're SERIOUS! Call in sick, take a personal day off, public protest in marches, picket, or whatever .... just take the day off on a certain date to be decided. Know anyone out there nationally who can organize this?
LD
I.R.O.N. (Immigration Reform for Oklahomans Now)
No more money for Republicans!!!
'Cause the illegals coming across Iraq's borders are coming to fight, terrorize, and murder, not to work.
and somehow the number of illegal immigrants has not changed in 9 years. They say it is still 11 million???
I think it is more like 25 million...
Nothing like priorities, eh?
George Bush stresses that IRAQI border must be respected:
Iraq's borders
Protect everyone elses' borders but ours. Genius. Everyone else is a sovereign nation, but the U.S??????????
that is bull.
After 9/11, there was no excuse not to throw out every last illegal in this country.
Yes. And what he's NOT done is indefensible even to the most ardent of Bush-Bots.
More than 34 million immigrants now live in the United States, and make up 12 percent of the nation's population, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year.
How does one explain WHY Dubya's enabled and encouraged this invasion to go on unimpeded? (Let's all put on our tinfoil hats.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.