GO SIMON
Posted on 06/24/2002 9:38:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Social Security, it's been said, is the third, electrified rail of American politics. Touch it and you risk political electrocution.
In California, the same can be said of immigration, whose sensitivity has become a staple of state political campaigns. Politicians cannot endorse unrestricted immigration, or advocate public benefits for undocumented immigrants, without running the risk of alienating California voters. But neither can they appear to be anti-immigrant without angering the fast-growing Latino voting bloc.
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Wow!!
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that every illegal alien takes $55K more from the system than they contribute. No, I do not think we should "merely accept" this negative impact and I am tired of paying for it.
You have to realize that, thanks to uncontrolled immigration, high tax rates, congestion, political correctness, etc., there has also been net emigration from California of residents (many of them long-time residents) to the Northwest and Mountain States. These are typically middle class people, often Republicans, that the state elite is glad to see go. Immigration isn't the reason California is growing in population---it's just the reason it's becoming a Third World cesspool.
Date Range: 09/12/2001 To 06/11/2002
(last updated 06/11/2002)
In the 9 months since September 11th, the US Border Patrol has apprehended 661,605 illegal aliens attempting to cross the US/Mexico border illegally.
These are the official numbers per Border Patrol Sector:
San Diego Sector - 69,749
El Centro Sector - 75,093
Yuma Sector - 31,245
Tucson Sector - 233,215
El Paso Sector - 64926
Marfa Sector - 8,553
Del Rio Sector - 53,794
Laredo Sector - 62,149
McAllen Sector - 62,881
Some of these apprehensions are what we call recidivist apprehensions. A recidivist apprehension, is an illegal that has been apprehended before. That apprehension may have been during the reporting period or it may have been before the reporting period and the illegal may have been apprehended several times.
For this presentation, I will subtract the recidivist apprehensions from the total apprehensions. 661,605 - 256,882 = 404,723.
This gives our base figure of new illegal alien apprehensions. This figure is not 100% accurate, as some apprehensions go unreported and we have removed the aliens that have been apprehended by the INS before.
So, since September 11th, the US Border Patrol has apprehended approximately 404,723 new illegal aliens attempting to illegally cross the US/Mexico border.
The Border Patrol estimate that they apprehend only 20% of the illegal aliens crossing into the United States. That means 4 illegal aliens get through for every one apprehended.
Independent Immigration experts estimate that the Border Patrol apprehends only 10% of the illegal aliens crossing into the United States. That means 9 illegal aliens get through for every one apprehension.
For this presentation, I will use the Border Patrol estimate of 20%.
So, if the Border Patrol apprehended 404,723 new illegal aliens since September 11th, the number of illegal aliens that made it into the United States undetected would be approximately 1,618,892. Although it could be as high as 3,642,507.
This is an average of over 6,000 illegal aliens crossing into the United States from Mexico, undetected daily.
You must remember that these figures only reflect approximately 60% of the illegal aliens attempting to enter the US. I have not included the official US Ports of Entry along the US/Mexico border or the US/Canada border and I have not included any airport or interior apprehensions or the Border Patrol apprehensions along the US/Canada border. Using those numbers, would push the daily total of illegals entering the US to over 10,000.
If proper control of immigration were to occur, just maybe not so many would be trying to escape the consequenses of the invasion.
I have not been able to keep up with what he has pinged me on!
But he is one freeper prety hot on the topic!
No, this is all new to me!
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