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Grim Picture on Illegal Immigration
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
By Bill O'Reilly

[Tonight's] "Talking Points Memo": Grim new stats about illegal immigration.

The Pew Hispanic Research Center has issued a report that says the following:

There are currently 11 million illegal aliens residing in the USA right now, six million of them Mexicans. Eighty percent of Mexican migration to America is illegal. And there are currently 34 million immigrants living here, the highest in U.S. history.

There's no question that having 11 million people running around unaccounted for is chaos and a gross violation of U.S. law, yet little is being done about the situation for political reasons.

The Republicans believe Hispanic-Americans will provide votes, and, indeed, President Bush picked up 9 percent more Hispanic votes last November than he did the first time around. The irony is "Talking Points" believes that Hispanic-Americans like most of us want illegal immigration controlled and would not punish a politician for doing that.

The left-wing media, however, would. Any president who cracked down on illegal aliens would be demonized and accused of bigotry. â€â€