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The U.S. is being invaded so silently and surreptitiously that most Americans are not even aware of it. The invaders come by land, sea and air.
What was once a trickle has become a flood. Exact figures are hard to come by, but U.S. officials estimate that between 6 million and 10 million illegal aliens are living in the U.S. Last year alone, between 500,000 and 1 million arrived—while another 750,000 were caught and deported.
Small wonder that close to 10% of all Mexicans actually reside in the U.S., and Los Angeles has the third largest concentration of Mexicans (after Mexico City and Guadalajara).
The INS estimates that the newcomers cost the American taxpayer $13 billion a year in social services, and aggravate the already unfavorable balance of payments by annually sending home $3 billion—or more.
Even if an immigrant is caught, he is often released on his pledge that he will leave the country; he may renege and simply move to a different job in another area. Criminal penalties are seldom imposed by courts with overcrowded dockets.
Unemployment, for example, is high among union carpenters in Houston even though the city is in the midst of a building boom. The reason is that contractors are holding out for Mexican immigrants who will accept less than the minimum wage.
To control the number of illegal aliens entering the U.S. in the future, the Administration is considering sanctions—presumably stiff fines—against employers who knowingly hire such immigrants.
In the years ahead, the U.S. is likely to continue to be burdened with the fact that it is still pre-eminently the land of opportunity and promise—and that hundreds of thousands of people who cannot immigrate legally will try everything in their power to cross the border somewhere, sometime, somehow, and stay as long as they can.
Originally posted by jsobecky
I'm pretty much convinced that the only way to solve this illegal immigration problem is to annex Mexico and develop it.
Originally posted by rdang
Here are some "only here to work" illegals Nice.
Originally posted by Low Orbit
Many of the people who defend illegal immigration by default also defend creating and sustaining below the poverty line employment.
Congratulations liberals
Originally posted by jsobecky
I'm pretty much convinced that the only way to solve this illegal immigration problem is to annex Mexico and develop it.
Originally posted by Low Orbit
you have no idea what these people want! They don't want to be American, that's why they don't bother to learn our language or listen to our music or eat our food. All they want is to make an American wage so they can make more money for their family back home. If an illegal was offered the same wages in their home country as they could make in the US what do you think they would take.
End of discussion.