Rewarding the ones who have come here illegally, in any way, encourages more of them. We could deport 12 million people if we wanted to (we did managed to get a man to the moon), but it would be much easier to enforce the laws that we have on the books, deny them all benefits and prevent them from working (employer sanctions) so they will deport themselves.
Mexico is the staging area for The Third World to enter the US illegally.
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REFERENCE Mexico Detains 513 People Crammed Into Two US-Bound Trucks TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said.
The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, "were traveling in inhuman conditions" in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general's office said in a statement.
Rights groups have criticized Mexico for failing to protect tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, trying to illegally enter the US each year. The gruesome discovery of 72 murdered migrants from Central and South America in northeastern Tamaulipas state last August increased pressure on the government to act. Copyright 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.
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REFERENCE The Guatemalan AG for Human Rights said that 10% of Guatemala's population has relocated to the US. About 60% currently in the US do not possess legal immigration documents. A 2005 study by the Intl Organization for Migration, says the Guatemalan population here in the US numbers 1,364,000 persons. The study found that the vast majority of Guatemalan immigrants in the US send money back home, to the tune of $3.6 billion last year, alone.
Keep in mind, thousands of Guatemalans came here on ‘temporary status’ after some ‘natural disaster’. They didn’t go home, and neither will the millions of Haitians.
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REFERENCE Guatemala Protests Arrest of 3 in Florida Over Passports
January 26, 2010 | Julia Preston, New York Times
The Guatemalan government has issued a public protest after three Guatemalans were arrested this month by US immigration agents at a Federal Express office in Florida, when one of the immigrants went to pick up a package containing his newly issued Guatemalan passport. Suspecting that the passport was fraudulent, FedEx officials called ICE agents to alert them when the Guatemalans arrived to collect the package...
Two of the Guatemalans were illegal immigrants who have been deported, and one is in deportation proceedings. Guatemalan diplomats said that Fedex and American officials had examined and seized legitimate passports without notifying them and had improperly disrupted their dealings with Guatemalan citizens living in this country. Felipe Alejos, the Guatemalan consul in Miami, said the events appeared to violate basic diplomatic protocols.
“They seized official documents, and they did not let us know,” Mr. Alejos said. “There was coordination between FedEx and ICE to detain people.” FedEx officials said they followed routine company procedures when they contacted immigration authorities after detecting packages that suggested organized document fraud. Officials ICE said they arrested the Guatemalans only after two of them tried to flee from the FedEx office. Both the company and the immigration agency denied that they had collaborated to lure the immigrants to the office....
The Guatemalan government prints and distributes passports for its citizens living in the United States through a private company, De La Luz, in Metairie, La. In December, the company sent the new passports in Federal Express packages to the Guatemalans who had applied for them. At least 30 packages could not be delivered to the addresses listed, said a Federal Express spokeswoman, Allison Sobczak, and the shipper in Louisiana did not respond to telephone calls. FedEx employees opened several packages searching for better address information, she said... (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...