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."
It's likely there were 20,000,000 of these criminals in the US by 2003...
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html
And the numbers increase by the thousands per day...
How do they know this???
We were if you had good looking daughters!
"Does that make their assertion incorrect?"
not saying one way or the other, I'd just say it makes a little top heavy
Perfectly legal, and good capitalism to boot!
susie
heck, there are 20 million here in the city of Los Angeles.
My conservative guess would be that there are 30 to 50 million illegals in the USofA.
I've been saying from 30 to 50 million for ages....sometimes got heckled for it.
There were probably 15-20 million here in 2000, when the Gov reported 8 million illegals.
The real point is that the problem is one hell of a lot worse than most think or willing to admit.
The way we are headed, the population will be comprised of 1/3 illegals and their offspring. Probably by 2030.
There have probably been 10 million just in overstayed visas. Look it up!
In Arizona last year, they were catching 160,000 per month. Since they only catch from 1 out of 5 or possibly, one out of 10....you can do the math. This is from people involved at the border!
They are coming from all over the world to get here. This administration has rolled out the red carpet.
Even that number is too low. There are at least 68 million illegal aliens (including anchor babies).
Build the walls! Secure our borders now!
Whatever....
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.
These people are invaders. Something our government leaders are supposed to protect us against. They have broken their oath to protect and defend the constitution.
Briefly, a relatively constant percentage of Hispanic surnames was found in state and local government documents from 1900 to 1950. Documents that generally reflect citizenship and residential stability (tax records, school records, etc.). Annual migrations to secure work in California's agricultural industry occurred routinely during the period but those immigrants returned to Mexico when the agricultural harvests ended. They were home for Christmas!
Beginning after WWII that pattern changed. The percentage of Hispanics on government records began to increase out of all proportion to prevailing reproductive rates and visa grants. The increases accelerated coincident to the Bracero Program and dramatically increased after Reagan authorized the first federal amnesty in 1986.
Today, over 50% of the births recorded in California have a Hispanic surname and California's public school population is approaching 40% for students with Hispanic surnames.
Direct evidence? No. A pretty good indication of the magnitude and recent nature of the problem? Yes.
Bear stearns has no reasone to lie to you. They don't have to get re-elected. Eh Jorge Bush?
About 15 years ago I sometimes visited a laundromat on the edge of a large urban area. Once a week a school bus would arrive full of farm workers who wanted to do their weekly laundry and shopping. The strange thing was that all these people were extremely short. The men were all not much over five feet, although they all wore cowboy hats that seemed partially intended to add to their height. The women were really tiny, all well under five feet. These people seemed to have darker skins than most Mexicans. I figured that they had some sort of Indian background.
Getting a close estimate of the number of illegals seems like a difficult statistical problem.
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