Thread: Administration’s defeatist views threaten U.S. securi

U.S. Immigration "Policy"
Alan Tonelson
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

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Administration’s defeatist views threaten U.S. security:

“The borders can’t be protected. We can’t protect our own border!�
–Secretary of Defense Donald M. Rumsfeld, November 29, 2005

Number of illegal aliens apprehended in Tucson, Arizona sector of U.S.-Mexico border, October, 2004-October, 2005: 435,589

Number of these illegal aliens with U.S. criminal records: 31,000

Illegal immigrant share of total U.S. immigrants, 1990: 37%

Illegal immigrant share of total U.S. immigrants, 2004: 47%

Number of previous years when illegal share was ever this high: 0

Sources: Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN, November 29, 2005; “Whipsawed On The Border,� by Paul Magnusson, BusinessWeek, October 10, 2005; “Detailed Table 1a. Average Annual Immigration for Calendar Years, 1990-2004, by Race/Hispanic Origin and by Legal Status based on CPS, ACS, and Census 2000 Data,� in Rise, Peak, and Decline: Trends in U.S. Immigration, 1992-2004,� by Jeffrey S. Passel and Roberto Suro, Pew Hispanic Research Center, September 27, 2005, http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/53.pdf, p. 30

Geez, 1 in every 14.05 of these have all ready been arrest in the US in the past.(October, 2004-October, 2005: 435,589, Number of these illegal aliens with U.S. criminal records: 31,000 )