Posted on 03/15/2006 8:20:49 PM PST by Calpernia
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You are fun to freep with. And smack me in the head when I need it :)
Yes, a few months ago National Review magazine said that although 11 million illegals is commonly cited - there may be as many as 20 million! It's absolutely frightening to me that we have NO idea of how many foreigners have actually invaded our country. Even more frightening is the fact that BOTH parties are exacerbating this natural disaster. Think about it: a sovereign nation is subject to an illegal foreign invasion that has cost us billions in prison incarceration, social welfare services, bankrupt school districts, curtailed hospital public emergency services, remedial and bi-lingual education, AND a threat to our national security with our utter failure to secure our borders against terrorism. Most objective observers would say this is nothing more than a death/suicidal wish! What do you think? Sometimes I think this very insanity has driven me insane!! (?)
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.
Gee thats nice that just before congress wants to up immigration and visa limits the enforcers go to work to turn in a few pickups and pad the old account.
Lets see 375 illegals and only some 12 to 20 million more to go.
Count me in you corner.
The more I read about this amnesty crap the angrier I get.
Thanks for the info.
The third entry and they are on the fast track for Wells Fargo loans, Driver's Licenses, a ride with 27 others like them in a careening 1985 GMC cargo van, get to rebuild the Gulf Coast, rape twelve year old girls and generally totally ignore our laws. The fourth entry is into their new country.
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Very interesting and horrifying statistics but based on 8.7 million illegals! What if, as I suggested in another post, (and cited the source) the number is closer to 20 million? The tragic fact is that we've lost control of our own nation. This horrible reality hasn't yet fully resonated with the majority. It sort of reminds me of the frog put in a pot of water and the temperature is gradually increased - but by the time the water begins to boil it's already too late for the frog. I think we could confront any overt or imminent physical threat but this crisis has done us in! I doubt the disastrous trends can be reversed.
I believe you about 20 million. If you look at my post closer, I was citing known stats and contrasting them all in the data I found. I even clarified further in my post that not all illegals will stand up and be counted.
My numbers weren't based on one source.
Thank you and I must confess I read it in too cursory a manner the first time. Excellent post!
Sadly, I'm not sure the sarcasm tag applies to that post...
Camp of the Saints....
But they can sure rail on about a few port terminals! Meanwhile we are being overrun with illegals. Personally, I think there are 10m in Texas and another 10m in California alone....putting the total somewhere between 30 and 40 Million.
What do we get in return:
Closed hospitals
Increased health care costs.
Overcrowded prisons
Diseases we had all but eradicated
An underground economy
Increased crime
Identity Theft
Higher taxes
Increasing rate of unemployment of Americans
Lower standard of living for many Americans
Draining off of our social benefits
Gangs
Increased terrorism risks
Devaluation of our citizenship
Erosion of our national identity.
Lower tax revenues, since much of their work is off the books.
To name just a few.
Personally, I can't find one good thing about illegal immigration.
Since a[[ those examples are actual postings of illegal alien activity (I left MANY out), I should not have. I hope the GAO report on fraud is the silver bullet meant for the "guest worker" shamnesty.
I think your list is superb! I copied it because it's an excellent brief reminder of the points that can be elaborated upon in book form! The tragedy is that we've lost control of our own nation to a foreign illegal invasion.
I think I will start posting a list like this on the immigration threads.
E-mail me with any new ones you can think of.
Excellent idea! I'll give it some thought and contact you if I come up with anything. All best,
Keep me on the list / in the loop on immigration threads. Thanks
You have no idea how many concerned Americans there are who value this kind of scrutiny.
Please keep up your good work on this extremely critical issue.
HiJinx will put you on the border ping list.
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