Posted on 09/07/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by VU4G10
Last month Homeland Security intentionally lied to the American people by claiming there are only 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
The true total is nearly three times that.
The 11 million figure is courtesy of a report released in August 2006 by the Office of Immigration Statistics of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The figure is intentionally understated. We discovered this while researching our book, "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders," and we believe it is done so as not to alarm the U.S. public. [Editor's Note: The "Minutemen" book by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi offers insights into the security concerns surrounding illegal immigration. Read more about it. Get our FREE Offer. Click Here Now.]
Why do we make this charge? To begin with, those conducting government surveys never ask directly, "Are you an illegal immigrant?" (To ask this question would be objectionable to many – certainly to illegal aliens and their enablers.) So, instead of asking this question, government researchers ask, "Are you foreign-born?"
If people acknowledge being foreign-born, they are asked when they arrived in the United States and whether or not they are U.S. citizens. Based on these answers, researchers make an estimate as to whether or not respondents are here illegally.
In other words, the government doesn't know how many illegal aliens are on U.S. soil, and it won't even ask relevant questions in its surveys. Instead, it prefers to guess.
We interviewed Dr. Jeffrey S. Passel at the Pew Hispanic Research Center in Washington, D.C., whose own estimates agree with those released by DHS.
Dr. Passel admitted that the government typically uses indirect means to estimate how many illegal aliens are in the United States. "Basically, we subtract the legal foreign-born population from the total foreign-born population that's in the survey, to get an estimate of the unauthorized migrants who appear in the survey," Dr. Passel told us in a telephone interview.
Now, the U.S. government excels at keeping statistics. The "U.S. Statistical Abstract" counts tens of thousands of measures that the government uses to make laws and enforce regulations. Everything from congressional representation to taxation issues, to how school budgets are allocated and transportation regulations enforced, are tallied and reported each year in the "Abstract."
When it comes to taxing its citizens, getting accurate numbers doesn't seem to be a problem. And yet our government can more exactly estimate how many hot dogs and hamburgers will be sold at next year's Super Bowl than estimate the number of illegal aliens in the United States today.
The government, for instance, does not count as illegal the millions of "anchor babies" who are born in the United States to illegal aliens. Under the federal government's politically correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment, anchor babies born here are U.S. citizens, not illegal aliens. And the government doesn't count the millions of illegals granted citizenship under one of the many amnesties Congress has passed since 1986.
The point is that illegal immigration numbers are all about politics. The term "illegal immigrant" is hated by supporters of open borders precisely because "illegal immigrant" describes too directly what is obviously going on. Supporters of unlimited open immigration want us to see illegal immigrants as "unauthorized migrants," or "undocumented immigrants," even as "guest workers." Spin is in — and simple English is the enemy.
Based on our research while writing our book, when groups the federal government excludes from its "official" estimates are properly counted, we conclude that there are currently 30 million illegal immigrants in the United States. That's right — 30 million, or nearly three times the number that DHS is guessing.
What's more, the evidence also suggests there are 10,000 more illegals crossing our unguarded borders every day. This translates to approximately 75,000 illegal immigrants crossing each week, with 4-6 million new illegals entering the U.S. each year.
These are unvetted, unapprehended aliens who intend to blend into our society and occupy our territory. Many having no intention whatsoever of assimilating and yet have no intention of returning to their homelands either.
This illegal alien invasion is the equivalent of four army divisions a week. While these individuals are busy entering and occupying American territory, our elected officials are busy forcing citizens and legal immigrants to pay for the "privilege" of being invaded.
The rate of illegal immigration is increasing geometrically. Within 5 to 10 years, we may see 10 million or more illegals crossing our borders each year. At this rate, somewhere around the year 2025, we may end up with 100 million illegal aliens in the United States — 1/3rd of more of our total population.
No wonder our government doesn't want an accurate count of illegal immigrants, especially not if an honest and direct methodology called for asking any "politically incorrect" questions in a "politically incorrect" manner.
Jim Gilchrist is the founder of the Minuteman Project. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., is the co-author of the NYT best-seller "Unfit for Command."
There are 11 million illegals just here in the SF Gay Area.
Thirty Million Plus...the actual number of illegals in the US of A. Of course DHS wouldn't lie to keep Americans from knowing the truth.
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I'm willing to bet the number is more like 50 million, and that's the big secret politcians are desperate to keep.
This will essentially de-populate Mexico, since their current population is around 100 million.
And the government doesn't count the millions of illegals granted citizenship under one of the many amnesties Congress has passed since 1986.
If they are CITIZENS, they are not illegal immigrants. You may wish we didn't give them amnesty, but we did, and those people are no longer illegal.
Calling citizens illegal clouds the issue of real illegals, people who are here NOW and should be sent back. Nobody is talking about revoking citizenship and sending these amnesty-people back. At least no sane people.
You can't believe or trust ONE word from the mouths of Bush and anyone in his administration about anything involving immigration/illegal immigration. Deliberate non-enforcement of borders and immigration laws IS the policy of the Bush administration.
How can the phony to begin with number of 11 million not increase in 5 years when you have thousands coming across the border daily?
We should just make Mexico the 51st state.
I've been saying 30 - 40 million, but I've read on sites that support the illegals that it's close to 50, something they have no qualms about boasting on.
Says who--hysterics who are frustrated that somehow illegal immigration isn't being stopped this instant?
This is the kind of laughable crap that the left wants to show people.
We should get the job done; that doesn't mean we judge an article's accuracy by the amount of hysteria it sells.
There's still all of Central and South America, not to mention Africa, Thailand, the old Soviet Block countries, etc.
" We discovered this while researching our book "
everyone is selling a book now-a-days
How Buchananesque.
"The term "illegal immigrant" is hated by supporters of open borders precisely because "illegal immigrant" describes too directly what is obviously going on. Supporters of unlimited open immigration want us to see illegal immigrants as "unauthorized migrants," or "undocumented immigrants," even as "guest workers." Spin is in — and simple English is the enemy. "
I heard a guest of O'Reillys add a new twist. The illegals and their supporters don't/won't say that they in favor of SECURING THE BORDER (against illegals and terrorists), they will only say they are in favor of PROTECTING THE BORDER (against terrorists, which they obviously claim they are not). Watch for them to make the argument that, of course they TOO are in favor of "PROTECTING" our borders!
Of course they're lying...They've claimed the 11 million number since 1956...
"We should just make Mexico the 51st state."
Absolutely not!!!!!!!!
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