Thread: Interesting 2001 U.S. Border Report

U.S. Border Report
Migration across the Mexico border
Undocumented aliens and illegal drugs enter Southwest U.S.A.
01 January 2001
San Diego, CA

The major immigration issues: Should foreign nationals be allowed to feloniously violate U.S. immigration laws by entering the U.S. using falsified documents; be allowed to violate U.S. border laws, even violating Mexico's border law by entering the U.S. illegally between recognized U.S. - Mexico Ports of Entry (P.O.E.s) while often trespassing on, littering, trampling, polluting, burning, vandalizing, stealing from, or otherwise damaging U.S citizen-owned (and Mexican citizen-owned) private property, state property, and federal property; be allowed to violate U.S. Treasury laws by not paying income taxes; be allowed to violate U.S. Social Security laws by not withholding F.I.C.A. taxes (Federal Insurance Contribution Act); or be allowed to violate U.S. Selective Service laws by not registering for U.S. military service? All this felonious law-breaking so that supposedly "starving" people can earn about 15 times more money on average by working in the United States, rather than working in their home country?

Should foreign nationals be allowed to traffic drugs or smuggle people across the Mexico border into the U.S.? And are these people illegally entering the U.S. really starving in the third world countries they come from, as they and others sometimes say? Or are these people from third world countries really coming to the U.S. simply for economic gain? And if so, is feloniously violating so many U.S. laws justified? Or is immigration being allowed by U.S. politicians, political parties, or other government organizations, or private enterprise lobbies, to change the political, economic, religious, or ethnic makeup of America for some goal or gain?

13 million illegal aliens: A recent study at Northeastern University in Boston by researchers Andrew Sum, Neeta Fogg, and Paul Harrington concludes as many as 13 million illegal aliens may reside in the United States. This is comparable in size to the combined populations of the following 13 states and the District of Columbia (in alphabetical order): Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia; total population of 12,588,161 in the 2000 census. See itemized listing. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service says about 40% of the illegal aliens are in California. The 2000 census counted about 8 million undocumented illegal aliens in the United States, and admits it may have missed some.

Why isn't more done to stop illegal immigration? The vast majority of all illegal immigration today originates from Mexico and/or migrates across the Mexico border from other countries. The study at Northeastern University above concludes that the U.S. government's figure of 5 million has been grossly understating the true number. See: http://www.ins.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/299.htm, "Illegal Alien Population, October 1996: Top Ten Countries of Birth, All Countries" (in lower left box), Note "Last modified 03/07/2000" at the bottom of this I.N.S. webpage.

The Northeastern University study additionally finds that from 1994 to 2000, U.S. businesses report creating 5.2 million more jobs than U.S. workers report obtaining. They believe this discrepancy is largely the result of illegal aliens obtaining the new jobs. Aliens who overstay their travel, education, and employment visas also account for an unknown percentage of illegal immigration. The U.S. does not have 13 million agricultural, farm, and hotel jobs, therefore illegal aliens are obtaining employment in other or all sectors of the U.S. economy. Nor does Los Angeles or California have 3 million farm or hotel jobs.

After aliens obtain citizenship, many U.S. politicians desire these new voters, desire their new "swing vote" voting-block political power (i.e., California), which can change election outcomes with as little as 1% of these new swing voters casting ballots, and desire their ability to change the political demographics of congressional districts, cities, and states. Election exit polls in California during the 1998 gubernatorial election indicate 80% or more of former aliens in California from Mexico voted Democratic after obtaining citizenship. And a similar result apparently occurred in the 2000 presidential election nationwide by about a 2 to 1 margin in favor of Democrat candidates.

The irony is that employers of both major political parties desire the inexpensive labor provided by illegal aliens in our service-based U.S. economy. Intentionally or unintentionally, the U.S. government and U.S. businesses are using immigration, both legal and illegal, as one component in their effort to control wage inflation, and thus to a lessor extent to regulate both price inflation and wage inflation in the entire U.S. economy.

Therefore, members of both political parties benefit from immigration today, and there is little incentive for major policy changes. In a very simplistic view, one can say the Democrats benefit from the new voters and the Republicans benefit from the inexpensive labor.

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Interesting they were using the 13 million figure then and still use it today when we all know that number is MUCH higher. I wish I had known then what I know now. I wasn't even aware of this back then.