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Thank you so much for taking the time to post this.

I note also that apparently, if you read through this, the original bill for immigration security was held up by our favorite majority leader in the Senate.

Now I ask you, how could he in good conscience hold up the immigration and border security bill, IN TIME OF WAR?

Apparently President Bush wanted this, and tagged it onto another version of the immigration reform bill so that Daschle will be forced to pass it.

So it looks to me like some pretty smart legislating.

And I am glad to see that my suspicion about this is correct. It is not a blanket amnesty as has been shouted about for weeks.

Thanks again.

I thought you would like to see this excellent post which explains what was passed this evening.

There's a whole lot of hysteria over a 4-month window. Gee, perhaps people are not informed! OR, perhaps they don't WANT to be informed!

Although the bill grants limited amnesty to the immigrants, I doubt it provides relief for those entities that may have hired them. Don't be surprised to find massive fines for hiring illegals as a result of this legislation. BTW, had a house bricked lately? Chances are the crew was Mexican and didn't speak a work of English. Here legally? Probably not. And they are everywhere. Best darn bricklayers you will find. You would play heck trying to round them up. Give them a window to become citizens, get a SS# and pay taxes on what they earn. Lots of positives can come of this with limited downsides.

How many illegal aliens from terrorist states now qualify for amnesty???

It may not be blanket amnesty, but why didnt we enforce the existing laws first!! This is going to be revealed later whether it is blanket or not, all we need is a swipe of the pen to extend that portion of this bill. I still say this section is awful, and we should be throwing these people OUT, not allowing them to stay AFTER BREAKING OUR LAWS for as long as we have let them do!!

INS APPREHENSION INFORMATION

Date Range: 01/01/2002 To 3/10/2002 EST
(last updated 03/11/2002)

The table below represents all the recorded INS apprehensions for the above time period. At the bottom of the table is a glossary to help you better understand what you are looking at. Once we are done looking at the table, I will present some facts about what these number represent. These facts may shock you. This table will be updated approximately every two weeks.

	IDENT Totals	District Totals	Sector Totals
Encounters	263,493	43,330 (16.4%)	220,163 (83.6%)
LO Hits	4,114	1,779 (43.2%)	2,335 (56.8%)
RC Hits	103,675	11,274 (10.9%)	92,401 (89.1%)

DISTRICT or SECTOR	ENCOUNTERS	LO HITS	RC HITS
Anchorage District	34	0	8
Asylum	1	0	0
Atlanta District	683	6	28
Baltimore District	59	4	5
Blaine Sector	280	8	88
Boston District	167	6	11
Buffalo District	1,031	18	94
Buffalo Sector	134	1	16
Chicago District	826	12	60
Cleveland District	171	1	45
Dallas District	498	8	84
Del Rio Sector	22,880	107	8,891
Denver District	1,872	79	720
Detroit District	101	0	6
Detroit Sector	241	5	83
El Centro Sector	24,727	327	11,962
El Paso District	2,552	56	711
El Paso Sector	20,262	169	8,209
Grand Forks Sector	153	1	50
Harlingen District	3,007	62	699
Havre Sector	244	5	82
Headquarters	92	0	4
Helena District	88	4	14
Honolulu District	237	4	27
Houlton District	46	0	3
Houston District	1,329	41	325
Kansas City District	760	23	227
Laredo Sector	22,734	121	7,454
Livermore Sector	598	30	223
Los Angeles District	1,288	48	167
Marfa Sector	2,222	25	743
McAllen Sector	19,443	162	8,655
Miami District	2,319	30	198
Miami Sector	619	9	101
New Orleans District	208	10	41
New Orleans Sector	905	5	370
New York District	1,136	8	38
Newark District	500	6	16
Omaha District	515	14	159
Philadelphia District	300	16	49
Phoenix District	4,273	221	1,614
Portland ME District	69	1	9
Portland OR District	320	42	119
Ramey Sector	126	3	14
San Antonio District	3,652	86	1,016
San Diego District	11,893	623	3,866
San Diego Sector	21,752	668	9,299
San Francisco District	1,808	262	510
San Juan District	232	0	4
Seattle District	876	69	270
Spokane Sector	215	10	80
St. Paul District	351	17	124
Swanton Sector	117	1	18
Tucson Sector	72,873	523	30,883
Washington District	175	2	10
Yuma Sector	9,592	155	5,177

TOTALS	263,586	4,114	103,679

Table Glossary:

Encounters (also know as "Enrollments"): The total number of encounters (recorded apprehensions) into the system.

LO Hits: (Lookout Hits) The number of apprehensions involving people who have criminal records in the Lookout Database.

RC Hits: (Recidivist Hits) The number of apprehensions involving people who previously had been apprehended and having at least one record in the recidivist database.

District: The INS District is composed of the land Ports of Entry (Inspections), Airports (Inspections), and the District office (Detention, Deportation & Investigations) within that District.

Sector: The Border Patrol Sector is composed of the Border Patrol Stations and Check Points within that Sector.

Lets do some math.

From 01/01/2002 through 03/10/2002 the INS reported apprehending 263,586 illegal aliens in the US.
Now some of these apprehensions are what we call recidivist apprehensions, so well will subtract the RC HITS from the ENCOUNTERS.

263,586 - 103,679 = 159,907.

So, between 01/01/2002 and 03/10/2002 the INS apprehended approximately 159,907 illegal aliens either attempting to enter the US, or already in the US.

Now the fun numbers.

The Border Patrol estimates that for every illegal they apprehend, 4 slip by. Independent Immigration experts estimate that closer to 9 slip by, for every 1 alien apprehended. For this presentation, I will also use a 1 to 2 ratio.

So, if the INS apprehended 159,907 illegal aliens, the number of aliens that made it through undetected would be as follows:

1 to 2 = 319,814
1 to 4 = 639,628
1 to 9 = 1,439,163

This means, that anywhere from 319,814 to 1,439,163 illegal aliens entered the United States undetected since January 1st, 2002. .

Now for some more disturbing figures.

US and Allied troops that invaded Normandy in 1944 = 250,000 + US troops that invaded Okinawa in 1945 = 550,000+ Illegal aliens that have invaded the US in 2002 = between 319,814 and 1,439,163.

Now imagine that just 1/10 of 1% of those illegals are from Middle Eastern Countries.

We now have between 319 and 1,439 possible terrorist undetected inside

I took this from Marine Inspector's Profile page.

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profile?h=marine+inspector

It is not a blanket amnesty as has been shouted about for weeks.

The only ones talking about "blanket amnesty" are you and Dane, in your straw man arguments against those not happy with illegal immigration. This is what you call serious debate?
Any amnesty for illegals is treacherous.