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It is very high. They estimate at least 250,000 people have recently fled Juarez, guess where most headed.
Every day you see the vehicles with Mexican license plates filled with suitcases and belongings, the trucks piled high with furniture and headed north. They're pouring over the border. Yes many of course have shopping visas and cross legally but they're not living here legally.
As interesting as these anecdotes are, the data shows slower migration across the border, primarily due to improvements in Mexico.
Who estimated this? The thread in this forum shows that immigration currently is very small, and if anything, people are going back to Mexico.
Read up on the number of people fleeing Juarez. And most don't flee to Mexico City where there are no programs to support them, they come to the USA. All you would have to do is take a look at the streets of El Paso and check out how many Mexican license plates you see.
So much for Homeland Security....... well at least USA citizens are being groped and x-rayed at the airports, anyone can easily get over the border however.
You're not listing the only options. The other option, instead of spending hundreds of billions on fencing and militarizing our border, is to let people in with inspection, and with permission. Then we don't need the border security, they'll all pay their taxes, and they'll all be legal.
We already have a legal immigration process. However, if you are suggesting we should lower our standards, and simply grant visas to everyone who wishes to live or work here, that is not even feasible, let alone beneficial to this country. Furthermore, in the real world, they will continue to work under the table, and continue to evade taxes. After all, they have absolutely zero respect for our laws. Sorry, but your proposal is a pipe dream.
Read up on the number of people fleeing Juarez. And most don't flee to Mexico City where there are no programs to support them, they come to the USA. All you would have to do is take a look at the streets of El Paso and check out how many Mexican license plates you see.
That's a pretty big assumption, that every Mexican license plate is an illegal immigrant.
That's a pretty big assumption, that every Mexican license plate is an illegal immigrant.
Actually a lot of them have shopping passes and of course many will soon give birth here and have their anchor baby that will pave their way into the welfare offices and so on.
...Yet, we should grant amnesty to those currently in this country. Well, that would include this man and countless others who entered our country today, and will enter our country within the next several months or years...
In reality "this man" was caught, and is now back in Mexico. Others that "enter our country" will likely have the same fate. The status quo is like that, if there are no changes, it pretty much gives the same results.
As interesting as these anecdotes are, the data shows slower migration across the border, primarily due to improvements in Mexico.
Unless they have a magical illegal alien counter at the border, it is impossible to determine the number of illegal entries. Everything is based on conjecture, which is precisely why the government has no idea how many illegals are here, or how many have left. They throw these garbage studies at the public to give the appearance of having a clue, when they know damn well they are pulling figures out of the sky. Illegal immigration is like an untreated cancer, it continues to spread, until it kills.
We already let them in with inspection and permission. Don't forget that most legal immigrants come from Mexico, we simply cannot take in all their impoverished classes like we now are doing.
The problem is, when they come in with permission, many head right on over to a free hospital to give birth and then down to the welfare office to get their food stamps and government housing.
That is the underlying problem. There are more Mexicans/other illegal aliens that want to come here than we can accomodate in jobs and resources while keeping check on our population growth also. The pro-illegals think the answer is to just let everyone in that wants to come here just as long as they are checked in at the border. Just how crazy is that?
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