If you think a report like this from the border area is tinfoil hat material ... you must have another agenda.
Among the other highlights from the census report: _Nearly 17 million people, or just over half of the foreign-born population in 2002, came from Latin America. Over half of the 17 million arrived after 1990. _Slightly more than one-quarter of the foreign-born population had a bachelor's degree or more, about the same as the native-born population. More than 20 percent of the foreign-born population had less than a ninth-grade education, compared with about 5 percent of the native population. The census report did not count immigrants in jails, nursing homes or other group quarters, and did not cover illegal immigration. A separate report released in January by the Immigration and Naturalization
Service estimated an illegal immigrant population of roughly 7 million, growing about 350,000 a year during the 1990s.
Mexicans made up almost 70 percent of the illegal immigrant population in 2000, the INS said. ___ On the Net: Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov
I think more tin is needed.
