Show your source for the statement that immigrtion is down under Bush. Because it sure isn't illegal immigration. Government figures don't back your statement. Enlighten us.
NEWS MAX publioshed a chart showing that immigration (both legal and illegal) peaked in 1999. Maybe you have not noticed that they informed us that there were 12 million illegals in the country after 9/11. The number has not changed. So do your research and inform yourself.
I will if you will; let's see your numbers.
Here are mine:
The number of migrants coming to the United States each year, legally and illegally, grew very rapidly starting in the mid-1990s, hit a peak at the end of the decade, and then declined substantially after 2001. By 2004, the annual inflow of foreign-born persons was down 24% from its all-time high in 2000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center analysis of multiple datasets collected by the Census Bureau and other government agencies.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=53
Another couple of pieces of info:
Bush Taxes Immigrants Wanting to Become U.S. Citizens George Bush says that America is a "welcoming" nation. So why has he raised fees on the very things he wants incoming immigrants to do: work hard, play by the rules, and become citizens? Over the past four years, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (now a faction of the Department of Homeland Security) has raised the cost of 31 existing fees and has added nine categories of new ones. The tax to become an American citizen has increased 55 percent. The Bush administration has privatized the 1-800 immigration help line, and the new privatized workers usually need to read from a script to answer callers' questions, resulting in the dispension of incomplete or conflicting information. The administration cites the cost of increased security for the price hikes, but that figure ($21 per application) is less than half the amount of the recent fee increases. The real cost of these increased fees may be that fewer immigrants can afford to take the legal route to citizenship. Source: AlterNet, "Taxing Immigrants," Jonathan Rowe, Oct. 19, 2004.
Immigration Tops Federal Prosecution List Under Bush by Brendan Coyne Oct. 3, 2005 – Federal law enforcement has increasingly turned its gaze on immigration violations in the years since George W. Bush ascended to the presidency, leading to a record number of prosecutions last year, according to a report released yesterday by a private research firm. Much of the impetus for the policy shift came about at urging by the Department of Homeland Security, a related report notes. Federal prosecutions of immigration crimes jumped from 16,310 in 2001 to 37,854 last year, according to the study by Transactional Records Access Clearing House, a private firm affiliated with Syracuse University.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2430/printmode/true
Consider yourself enlightened.