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New Reality Emerging on Illegal Immigration
Townhall.com ^ | July 14, 2011 | Michael Barone

Posted on 07/14/2011 5:57:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/14/2011 5:57:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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The Pew Hispanic Center estimates the 2010 illegal population at 11.2 million, down from the 2007 peak of 12.0 million and just about the same level as in 2005. It's probably lower today.

I am dubious of this "fact"

2 posted on 07/14/2011 6:01:33 AM PDT by SengirV
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To: Kaslin

E-Verify should be required for employment AND public assistance.


3 posted on 07/14/2011 6:03:23 AM PDT by umgud
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One thing they missed: the civil war going on in Mexico. And that’s what it is.

Civil wars create large numbers of refugees dependent on the government of the nation they move into. Hence another reason for Fast and Furious (fuel the violence) and other obastard policies.


4 posted on 07/14/2011 6:05:23 AM PDT by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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“E-Verify should be required for employment AND public assistance.”

Every attempt to trim the welfare roles down to just the people that welfare was designed to help have been reversed by the courts. There are wanted felons living off welfare. Various police agencies have sued to get the addresses so they could make arrests. The courts have constantly ruled against this as a violation of (fill-in-the-blank) rights.


5 posted on 07/14/2011 6:08:23 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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That means we can shift our immigration quotas to higher-skill immigrants...

Currently the socialists just want warm bodies...it doesn't take much skill to vote for a rat.

6 posted on 07/14/2011 6:19:25 AM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Kaslin

Wouldnt it be great if its true?

Why does it feel like its sourced from “the onion”?


7 posted on 07/14/2011 6:19:32 AM PDT by Round 9
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Maybe if they slapped a 50% tax on all money transfers out of the country by people who couldnt produce valid id that they are U.S. citizens or legal aliens. Mexico will never willingly wean itself off of American cash.


8 posted on 07/14/2011 6:22:55 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Socialism is the political dream of the unachiever, the excuse maker, and the lazy.)
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Thus when the 1965 Immigration Reform Act was passed, almost no one predicted that we would have massive immigration from Mexico. Experts told us that immigrants came in large numbers only from Europe.

Not to toot my own horn, but I predicted just such an outcome when it was being discussed, and knew I was being lied to by the sainted Ted Kennedy, and others. And I was just a kid (17 to be exact).

But great prognosticator that I am, even I didn't know it would get this bad, this fast.

9 posted on 07/14/2011 6:27:02 AM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
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Foreclosures on mortgages that should never have been granted have been especially high among Hispanics.
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housing is what triggered the depression.
caused by the Community Reinvestment Act,
forcing banks to meet minority quotas.

“No SSN” mortgages fit nicely.
i read of illegals selling (flipping) to each other,
until the last person, simply disappeared.

i’d love to see some real stats, but i suspect they are mind-numbing. the costs of illegal immigration, both direct and indirect, are destroying our great nation.


10 posted on 07/14/2011 6:46:21 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: Gen.Blather

You have described the very successful, well played execution of the Cloward-Piven strategy.


11 posted on 07/14/2011 6:49:41 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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Yes, it was so very hard to predict that in a world of third world poverty - when a wealthy nation opens its borders to all who would illegally invade and remain, and then rewards them with a cornucopia of free welfare, health, educational programs - that tens of millions would have taken advantage.

After all didn't democrat Ted Kennedy, one of the principle movers of the 1965 Immigration Bill and later democrat Chuck Schumer & RINO Alan Simpson, principle movers of the 1986 Amnesty, tell us that their Immigration Reform Bills would not increase but would in fact solve the illegal alien problem.

Who would have thought? Certainly not the Pew Hispanic Center, the author Michael Barone, Chuck Shumer or any of these hucksters now pushing their versions of "Immigration Reform!"

12 posted on 07/14/2011 6:53:43 AM PDT by drpix
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instdems


13 posted on 07/14/2011 6:59:28 AM PDT by FrankR ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
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Teddy Kennedy specifically designed that act so that we’d stop getting immigrants from Europe and start getting mass waves of them from third-world countries. He should have called it the Democrat Party Future Registrations Act of 1965.

I swear on the few days that man ever drew a sober breath he must have stayed up all night thinking of new ways to screw this country.


14 posted on 07/14/2011 7:00:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Barone needs to retract this column and start studying the congressional districts and states for the coming 2012 elections.


15 posted on 07/14/2011 7:07:37 AM PDT by Will88
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The difference they always gloss over is the legal/illegal component. Only the Mexicans come in as invaders. The rest fill out the paperwork and submit to the background checks.


16 posted on 07/14/2011 7:07:37 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: MikeSteelBe

I have heard of this strategy. I guess it is to collapse the economy and replace it with Communism? It may backfire and just collapse the Communist programs.


17 posted on 07/14/2011 7:21:10 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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This story is 100% made up BS, just another attempt to stop the states from taking over the fight against illegals. The tide has not stopped, there are over 30 million illegals here from all over the world, just the most of them are from the south.


18 posted on 07/14/2011 7:23:55 AM PDT by org.whodat
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Teddy Kennedy specifically designed that act so that we’d stop getting immigrants from Europe and start getting mass waves of them from third-world countries.

All the while lying to the American people and telling them that the act would not cause the US to be swamped with a million immigrants a year, nor would it upset the ethnic balance of the country. I sincerely hope that when he died, there was a special spot in Hell just waiting for him.

19 posted on 07/14/2011 7:25:31 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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I agree. I think the ,Things are Looking up in Mexico, attitude of this piece is naive and don’t match what we’re seeing anecdotally.


20 posted on 07/14/2011 7:30:33 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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