Posted on 05/29/2002 2:42:12 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The 2000 Census revealed that, in at least 13 States surveyed to date, more US residents are speaking Spanish at home. Not English. This is the result of nation’s growing Hispanic population throughout the 1990s. It has risen an astonishing 58 percent to 35.3 million.
In some places such as California, native-born English-speaking business owners are taking Spanish lessons or hiring bilingual employees. Speaking Spanish at home is fine with me, but taking it out to the larger community and, in effect, requiring that it too speak Spanish is just dead wrong. A common language binds Americans to one another. Two languages in the same nation creates two separate communities.
The flow of illegal aliens from Mexico and nations further south is a virtual torrent. In the first six months of this year, the US Border Patrol apprehended 176,655 illegal aliens in just the 21-mile Douglas, Arizona, section alone! The same individual may be apprehended more than once and the Border Patrol estimates that, for every one that is caught, three to five are not! Since 1983, at least a half-million illegal aliens have entered the US from our southern border.
A study by the non-profit Center for Immigration Studies confirms that "annual immigration in 2030 will still approach 400,000 a year, 8.3 to 11.4 percent higher than the 370,000 estimated for 2000." The Mexican-born population of the United States will double to 18 million by the year 2030. There is a powerful incentive for this because, in the last decade, Mexican immigrants sent more than $45 billion to their relatives. In 2000, they sent $6 billion or about $17 million a day!
Federal investigators recently revealed that "tens of thousands of foreigners are illegally obtaining Social Security numbers by using fake documents involving identity theft and other crimes. Federal officials have not yet found a way to search US immigration records to prevent the practice. Using the Social Security identification, the next step is to secure credit cards and even security clearances that permit illegal aliens to work in sensitive areas such as airports. In 200l, the Social Security Administration issued 5.8 million numbers, including 1.5 million to non-citizens.
On May 5th, both the Washington Post and Washington Times reported that the families of eleven illegal immigrants who died while attempting to enter the United States had filed a $41 million lawsuit against two federal agencies. Allow me to provide my standard disclaimer. I do not dislike Mexicans. I don’t even know a Mexican. If a Mexican has come here legally and become an American citizen, bravo! I have no problem with that, but the notion that the United States should be sued because it did not tend to the needs of those entering illegally is just nuts!
According to them, the failure of the United States, specifically the Department of Interior and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, to provide water to Mexicans trying to sneak into America, was the reason they died. Their bodies were found last year in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge between Tucson and Yuma. That area was being used because, say the attorneys for the families, the US Border Patrol has effectively shut down more populous portions of the Arizona border, thereby forcing illegal aliens to come in through more remote areas.
Well, it should be obvious that the US is to blame, right? Why should we stop at providing water in a desolate desert where ground temperatures can exceed 130 degrees in the summer? Why not a fulltime bus service? Or chauffeured limousines? This Mexican version of an Alice in Wonderland approach to illegal immigration is why, in 1997, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 54% of all illegal immigrants coming into the US were Mexicans.
Could this be because elements of the Mexican government are carrying out a strategic depopulation program, centered around approximately ninety communities in central and southern Mexico? Some informed sources believe this to be the case. Making matters worse, according to Rep. Tom Tancredo (CO-R), since 1996 there have been 118 incursions across the border into the US; 61 by Mexican military and 57 by Mexican law enforcement. At least 60% of the time, the Mexicans were armed. Sometimes US Border guards come under fire.
The INS estimates that, in the past three years, more than a thousand migrants have died of various causes trying to enter the United States illegally. Their deaths, each one of them, were a tragedy, but it seems to me that it is a greater tragedy that Mexico does nothing to stem this human traffic. Maybe if Mexico took steps to improve its economy and provide jobs for its people, they would be working in Mexico instead of sneaking across the border?
And maybe President Bush’s enthusiastic support for yet another amnesty program for illegal aliens is one of the dumbest ideas he’s ever had? We are talking about adding another 200,000 illegal Mexican immigrants to the population. That’s equivalent to adding a city the size of Baton Rouge, Bakersfield or Mobile. All this does is say to Mexicans that, if they can get into the US, they have a fair chance of going to the head of the line when the next amnesty comes. No need to apply for citizenship like others do. No need to come here, get a Green Card, and earn the right to be a citizen. Just sneak across the border.
Our immigration policies are so stupid that the House Judiciary Committee recently voted out Rep. Barney Frank’s HR 1452, misnamed the Family Reunion Act, but in fact is legislation that would permit foreign criminals to stay in this country! It has 52 sponsors, most of whom are from the far Left of the Democrat Party, but that is not a long distance to traverse. The bill would erase the reforms achieved in the landmark 1996 immigration law requiring that, after serving their prison sentence here, they get deported.
This is why, at current rates, between legal and illegal immigration into this nation, we will double our population within the lifetimes of today’s college students.
In the last decade, the 11.2 million immigrants who arrived, plus the 6.4 million children born to immigrants living here, equaled almost 70% of the nation’s population growth. That’s just flat-out too much, too fast.
The numbers the Border Patrol talks about are for apprehensions. They state that that they apprehend about 20% of the illegals crossing the border, while the above experts believe its about 10%.
Yep, that is the plan. This issue will come back to haunt Bush but then again I don't think he cares. The rear end view of a Mexican Donkey must be the Bush family's coat of arms.
It’s close. The last estimate by the Border Patrol was approximately 20%, but I believe it to be higher.
Do you believe we could stop 90 percent with 30' high, guarded walls?
No. First off, it would be impossible to build a 30’ high guarded wall along the entire southern border. Second, if it’s guarded, why build the wall, just have the people. It cost less. The maintenance cost of the wall would be astronomical.
How deep would the foundation have to be to prevent tunneling?
Pretty deep.
If you wish to stop the flow of illegals, then take away all welfare, jail anyone who hires them and take their businesses, and help build Mexico’s economy.
If there is not job or benefit in coming to the US, and the Mexican economy is good, they won’t come.
Right on the mark and Jorge Bush is only giving the black community more reasons to vote against him. Only a FOOL would write off the significant African-American vote to try to grab a small new slice of the hispanic vote when his conservative base is in a state of revolt...like in 1992.
This makes sense to me. What I want to know is this: why doesn't Bush implement any of these measures?? I find it hard to believe he would put the illegal votes of these people ahead of the good of this country, but it's true. Juan-termer Bush!
In Tuesday's edition of the Houston Chronicle there was an article and survey over immigration. It said the Hispanic community, legal and illegal, were overwhelmingly in favor of continued mass immigration. The group that was least in favor of current immigration levels? Blacks.
...into Mexico.
Tuor
More specifically, Bush is not looking out for our own interests...he is looking out for his own career.
OTOH, one can always try reading the next sentence.
I personally know of businesses that refuse to allow anyone, including HR managers and in-house investigators to look closely at personnel files for fraudulent ID. By simply checking copies of drivers licenses, green cards and SS cards in employee personnel files, many will be found to be bogus. These checks can be done inexpensively and quickly. Many employers that hire these people do so knowingly. Most of these fraudulent IDs are easy to spot if you look closely and compare them with a legitimate ID.
For once, I wish I lived in California so I could vote for you. Go get 'em!
I'm not recommending that the border patrol or the military join hands and form a human chain at the top of the walls. With electronic surveillance, it's not going to take 200,000 troops to stop women pole-vaulters that are 9 months pregnant.
I'm all for fining and jailing anyone that employs illegal aliens, but how does that stop the terrorists, the Red Mafia, the Yakuza and agents of adversary foreign governments?
Mexico has the natural resources to develope it's own economy.
If you were a Democrat, you could vote in California no matter where you live in the galaxy or even if you are only imaginary. You don't even have to be alive.
My Grand-Dad voted Republican til the day he died.
Since then, he's voted Democrat.
Drew Garrett
Until the US gets serious and stops pissing around with stupid touchy-feely nonsense and race politics, this flood of global poor will continue until it wrecks our society and turns it into a sewer like the societies that teem into our borders. The President should order the US military to the US-Mexican border and if necessary enter Mexico itself and set up a provisional government to stop what in actuality is an invasion from an open border, not a form of immigration. As a descendant of American Indians I have NO sympathy whatsoever for "Hispanics", nor do I shed one tear for their own self-imposed failures. We've already played this stupid, endless game with blacks as "victims", we don't need to add another group to the pity parade, especially one that has their own country and wasn't forced to come here. ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL, no bullshit or excuses change that fact.
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